10.6: Set default auto-rotate and scale Preview's Print dialog

Dec 28, '09 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: atverd

Snow Leopard only hintSnow Leopard's Preview application has scale-to-fit and auto-rotation enabled in the Print dialog by default, but it doesn't seem to retain changes to these settings between restarts when I disable them in GUI. To change these settings permanently, copy and paste these commands into Terminal:

$ defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode 0
$ defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingAutoRotate 0
I'm not sure if these options are applicable in 10.4 or 10.5, but they work in 10.6.

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