Thanks Terry,
That is not what I was looking for, what I really want to do is to make it done
from the App.
OK this is what I wanted to do:
A Pushbutton called "Adjust Margins" is clicked and a window named
MarginAdjustments is brought up.
MarginAdjustments has two StaticFields Top and Left and and their
coprresponding Editfields Top and Left.
The use inputs the value he/she desires nad closes MarginAdjustments window.
What happens now is that the complete output to the printer has its left and
top margins adjusted accordingly.
Obviously, the changes will have to be made in the apps preference file.
Why all of this?
OK some lab forms are distributed as pads to the users and when these forms are
printed sometimes the data is not aligned (Top and Left) as the previous pad
and a little adjustment has to be done.
By doing it from the App is it much easier for the user, and everything else is
done in the background.
Any suggestions?
Thanks again Terry.
Terry Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Lennox Jacob wrote:
> Thanks Terry,
> When I call the printersetup for the first time a Page Setup window
> appears.
> This window has three dropdown menus:
> Settings, Format for, and Page Size, a fourth menu with three
> icons, one for portrait and two for landsacape and a fifth menu
> with scale.
> Obviously, I need to add something so that a menu will come up for
> page left and one for page top.
> How do I add those?
Trust Apple to hide it on you. :)
It took me a bit of searching to find it the first time but here it
is. Note that these are User defined settings.
1) You have probably made your printer the default printer and that
will show up on the 'Format for:' menu.
2) Select 'Manage Custom Sizes..'. in the 'Paper Size:' menu. The
'Custom Page Sizes" window will open. From that the user can set
'Page Size:', and the four margins. Give it a name in the listbox and
press OK. When you check the paper size menu again, you will see your
custom size grayed out.
3) Select 'Any Printer' in the 'Format for:' menu and you can now
select your custom paper settings.
4) Select Save As Default in the 'Settings:' menu if you wish to use
this setting until the default is reset to your printer's default.
Some software have extras added on to the standard OSX printer
driver's menu but I don't think that you can program this in Rb
without resorting to declares. It also gets tricky.
HTH
Terry
PS. Different OSes and printers may have different options. Mine are
for an Epson 880 Printer in OS X 10.4.
PPS. There has been much discussion about saving the setupstring in
the lists. Look for it in the archives.
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