Option to hide the "Multi-page, poster or scaled printing" Checkbox in the Printer Selection Dialog

I suggest to implement the following feature:

In List & Label 26, a new feature “Multi-page, poster or scaled printing” was added to the printer selection dialog.
Although we agree that there are use cases where this is a useful feature, we think that for most of our use cases it is undesired to have such an option. We haven even concerns that it may lead to support requests from our subsidiaries, asking what this new feature is about and how to use it, or from end customers who accidentally changed these settings.
Therefore, we suggest a new option to hide the “Multi-page, poster or scaled printing” checkbox in the printer selection dialog.

There is already an option to hide the page ranges (setting LL_PRNOPT_PAGE to LL_PAGE_HIDE) in the printer selection dialog. We would like a similar option which will allow hiding the “Multi-page, poster or scaled printing” feature.

A typical use case might be:

In most of our use cases, it is undesired for the user to use multi-page, poster or scaled printing. E.g. when printing labels on a label printer or when printing DIN A4 invoices to be sent by post, it doesn’t make sense to offer multi-page, poster or scaled printing.
If there where an option to hide the multi-page, poster or scaled printing checkbox, it would make the printer selection dialog simpler in appearance and will avoid confusion why “we” offer the option of multi-page, poster or scaled printing.

This will be implemented in SP 28.002. There is a new option LL_OPTION_HIDE_EXTENDED_PRINTMODES (399) that can be enabled to suppress the extended print features.

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