Scott Raney wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm having some trouble making my printouts look like my screens. I'm just
> > using "Print this card"....
--snip--
> The other solution is to set the "formatForPrinting" property of the
> stack to true before printing, then print, then set it back to false.
> Also note that due to the incredibly buggy in the HP printer drivers
> (working around problems in which is by far our #1 driver-related
> waste of time) this doesn't always work. Better operation can be had
> using the 2.3.1 release, currently in beta test. Be sure the card or
> stack has a font set, because fonts inherited from another stack (main
> stack or Home stack) don't change when you set the formatForPrinting
> property.
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> PS: While we're on the subject, does anyone know anyone at HP that
> gives a damn about the quality of their printer drivers? We'd sure
> like to get MetaCard in their test suite because it seems like every
> time they come out with a new printer we lose several days of
> development time trying to work around the bugs in them.
>
I worked there for a while in '94, doing QA on their Mac inkjet
printer drivers! I became friends with a fellow there who was
truly gifted in QA, who later became an engineer. In a previous
life he had been involved in the development of HyperCard. I'll
see if I can find him. He'll care.
Phil
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> MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
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