> How is printing in Windows supposed to work? In Mac,
> I go to "Page
> setup" and choose the paper layout I want. Then when
> I print, I get
> another dialog allowing me to choose copies, page
> ranges, quality etc.
> Rev ignores the page ranges :-( but apart from that,
> printing works as
> I would expect.
>
> With Windows, when I use "answer printer" which I do
> when "Page setup"
> is chosen from the menu, I get a dialog allowing me
> to choose the
> printer and it's settings, but it also has a Print
> button. rather to
> my surprise, this seems to work, even though I
> haven't scripted for it
> at all. However choosing "Print" from the menu gives
> me no dialog at
> all, it just prints to the default printer, no
> matter what I chose in
> "Page setup".
>
> So what do Windows users expect? Is this correct
> behaviour? Or should
> I forget "Page setup" for Windows and just use the
> "answer printer"
> dialog for printing in a single step?
>
> Please help a confused Mac person...
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
Hi Sarah,
Printing on Windows is a tad confusing in Revolution.
The 'answer printer' command displays the Page Setup
dialog box on MacOS, but on Windows it looks like the
place to print from.
And the other fun thing is that you can't actually
read and store the page setup data, so you have to ask
the user every time.
On Windows, users either never get the printer
selection screen, or they get it every time.
Thanks Jan, here's what i came up with:
if the platform = "MacOS" then
revShowPrintDialog false, true
else
revShowPrintDialog true, false
end if
revPrintText .....
I'm not sure this is ideal, but at least it gives a print dialog for
both platforms.
And Graham, BZ16169 already has my votes.
Cheers,
Sarah
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