Plus I have extreme difficulty figuring out how to effectively use the current printing options; I'd be more inclined in some cases to just generate postscript code and feed it to the "lp" command, if there was an "lp" or "lpr" with a PostScript interpreter under Windows, which I must (unfortunately) support... I guess I could just list Ghostscript as a system requirement ;-)
I guess I'm still too used to working with Pascal and Java. Still adjusting to Rev and Transcript. Basically impressive, but some things do seem to be missing, particularly when it comes to printing. The suggested text and line primitives would be more in line with what I'm used to, and provide somewhat more precise control over page contents.
On Aug 28, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:I quite agree, and if anyone is interested in even more, I have posted bug #2089 as a companion request for enhancement, for line drawing on the page, and for page breaks (to extend to additional pages).
On Aug 28, 2004, at 9:57 AM, Barry Levine wrote:I'll respectfully ask that you (all) take a look at Bugzilla item #2087 and
decide if it deserving of your vote. It's an enhancement, not a bug.
Short description:
PRINT [(font[size]] @ X,Y "text to print" [@ X,Y "more text"]
where the user may optionally specify a font (and size), a starting pixel
location on the page horizontally and vertically, and then the actual text
(which could be a field reference). Additional references to location and
text are optional. The command would be used between an "open printing" and
"close printing" to build a report (most likely a columnar report).
What are the advantages of creating an alternate way to draw text containers and graphic primitives over the current object-based methods?
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