Jim,

The bigger problem is that pixel is a device dependent measurement. The size of a video pixel != a printer pixel. You should be able to calculate a conversion factor though for a given printer.

>So, it looks like I would need to know what the (pixel) width of a single digit would be in the standard font -- if I knew that, it's fairly easy to compute the sum of the column widths and from that to determine whether the columns would fit if printed in portrait. However, I don't know how to determine what that (pixel) width would be.
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>For now, I guess, I'll just assume that my standard font matches my users'. (Not the worst assumption ever, but certainly not optimal).