On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> I would like to see some examples of how folks are printing in MetaCard.
> I already have the Print Report Generator, but I'd like to see some
> other examples too. I'm interested in seeing how folks print (and
> paginate) not only a plain text variable (should be pretty easy) but
> also how you'd print cards that have multiple fields of mixed types,
> including scrolling fields.
>
> In my experiments, techniques that print fine on a Mac have problems on
> Windows because the textheight in Windows is not the same between the
> screen fonts and the printer fonts. This being the case, it appears
> nearly impossible to calculate page breaks accurately without clipping
> the bottom line or two. Not only that, but every Windows font is
> apparently a little different. What works for one font or size won't
> work for another.
>
> Anyone have examples they'd like to share? Printing is such a basic
> function for almost every application, that I'm astounded that this
> isn't built into MetaCard already. Certainly at least basic print
> functions should be native. We should at least be able to send a plain
> text block to the printer without building a printing window and writing
> pagination scripts.
Problem is, that is almost never sufficient, and so it would be a
waste of our time to develop. But this whole cross-platform printing
problem will be *much* easier to solve in 2.3 because it has several
new functions and properties that will greatly simplify writing those
scripts.
Regards,
Scott
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Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
