I've brought all this up before, but unfortunately I now have a strong reason to know how much paper I have to print on. The users of an app I'm adapting to be multiplatform - using RunRev of course! -want the largest copy of a drawing that can be got onto a page without clipping, and I'm no nearer a solution. So, to repeat my message sent earlier this month:
It seems from earlier posts that neither MC or RR offer a way for a scripter to find out what the actual printable area is on a page. It seems so crashingly obvious to me that this is absolutely needed for any but the most primitive printing facility in an application that I think it's time we got some kind of solution, at least for Macs and PCs. If anyone with sufficient technical skills would like to take on a solution for either or both of these platforms (Applescript, Xcfn,DLL etc - I am not competent to judge), contact me off list and we'll see if we can come to some arrangement.
I think all I need is something that when activated sets the printMargins to the selected printer's minimum rather than 72 points all round (which in fact is more than the minimum margins of any printer I've ever used). Of course having captured this info, one would still be free to alter the printMargins, or have the user alter them via a Page Setup dialog as usual.
What I really can't understand is why other people don't want this facility as much as I do. There are a million different kinds of applications out there, and I guess a good few of them don't have much paper output.
Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France
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