>...I prefer to export data and print from a word processor. My
>"printing trickery" comment was a reaction to a client's requirements
>rather than a comment on Metacard's abilities. I'm sure the task
>would be a slog in other programming tools too.
>
>Our printing needs are probably so varied that it would be hard to
>agree on even a basic set of printing features that could be
>considered essential.
Exporting data to print might be okay for internal tools, but no client
I've ever talked to would find it unacceptable for any commercial
application.
One thing just about everyone could make use of, which is supported well
in so many dozens of cross-platform apps that it seems a reasonable
desire to include it in MC:
Printing a single block of styled text. Add support for a single-line
header and footer, and as long as the page breaks fall where they should
I suspect this would be a godsend for 90% of MC's customers.
This wouldn't solve all printing needs in the world, and folks could use
existing methods for those, but if this were available in the MetaCard
package as it is in HyperCard and SuperCard, it would take care of the
most common need and the hardest to implement in scripting.
- Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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