On 29/5/00 5:01 pm, Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was interested in making a flash card maker for teachers who often make
> their own flash-cards. Ideally, you would be able to type anything you want
> on each card in a list, rapidly. Then, push a button and the items will
> automatically be inserted into separate fields (with about 6 to 8 fields per
> page, depending on the size of paper and flash cards you want), with their
> textSize individually adjusted to be the largest possible and still fit nicely
> in the field. That part is easy, I've already done it in hypercard and
> metacard and supercard. BUT, then, idealy, you want to hit PRINT and you want
> it to print out perfectly with no margins and preferably with a little line
> outline of each field (as a cutting guide). Unfortunately, in none of the
> 'cards' (super,meta,hyper) can I get the print to work well....just don't have
> enough control over it, it seems. Any ideas? Finally, it would be even nicer
> if you could insert graphics too, not just words. I suppose you could do th!
> is with buttons and setting icons, but would still have the printing problem.
MetaCard does have a very good set of scriptable printing functions which
should allow you to print exactly as you wish (though you do have to spend
some time getting to grips with them). Try experimenting with the ability
to print into rect, and also look at the scripts for the printing stack
(included in the standard development interface) and the scripts of the
report generator (mcrg, available on the MC ftp site at
ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard).
Regards,
Kevin
> mark mitchell
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