Canonical media name vs. Locale name

[Ryan Small]

What exactly is the difference between the Canonical Media Name and the
Locale Name and why are there two different ways to specify the name of a
papersize? The documentation IMO, doesn't clear this up, at least for me.

For a batch plot application (VB executable), I need to be able to change
the papersize for the plot. I wrote a little application to printout both
the Canonical media names and Local Media Names for a specific device just
so that I would have a comparable list of the papersizes in both formats.
If I specify the name of the plot using a Canonical Name (eg. User168) I
have no idea what size this is and if I use the Locale Name (eg. Letter), do
I have to convert it back to a canonical name since the property of the page
size is LayoutObject.CanonicalMediaName.

Thanks,

Ryan Small

[Rodney McManamy]

I'm not sure on this but it's my understanding that the Canonical Media Name
is basically the Windows Standard and the Local Media Name could be whatever
or even translated into another language. This way programmers would know
that they could always find a page size called Letter no matter what
language they user is using. So even though it sounds like the round about
way you do want to get the Canonical Media Names, then their matching Local
names, display the local names to the user, let them select the local name,
convert it back to the canonical name, then set the
layout.canonicalmedianame property.

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[TomD]

How would that work with non-standard sheet sizes?

Like the original poster, the documentation I've read on this topic is just
plain bizarre, IMO.

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[Rodney McManamy]

The non standard sizes are considered user sizes and I think they have
canonical media names like User122 or User222 from what I've ben able to
figure.

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[Peter Cranshaw]

Tom,

As was stated in some of the earlier messages, the CanonicalMediaName is
basically an internal variable representing the various sheet sizes
available. You can establish the relationship between the two with the
"vla-getlocalemedianame" function.

Assuming that you already have the string for the sheetsize (as displayed in
the plot dialog) assigned to the variable "sht-sz" and have Plot Object set
to the variable "objPlotConfig" this code that I use will tranlate the
sht-sz into the canonicalmedianame and set the value for the plot.

(setq medialist (mapcar '(lambda (x)
(list (vla-getlocalemedianame objPlotConfig
x)
x
) )
(vlax-safearray->list (vlax-variant-value
(vla-getCanonicalMediaNames objPlotConfig)))
) )
(if (or (null sht-sz)
(/= (type sht-sz) 'STR)
(not (setq sht-sz (cadr (car (vl-member-if '(lambda (x)
(wcmatch (strcase
(car x)) (strcase sht-sz))
)
medialist
) ) ) ) ) )
(progn
(alert
(strcat "Invalid or empty SHEET SIZE specified!"
"\nPlotting ABORTED!"
"\n\n" sht-sz
) )
(quit)
)
(vla-put-CanonicalMediaName objPlotConfig sht-sz)
)

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