Thanks Chipp - and Mark, I have no idea if better printing is coming
along but it certainly should: I do not think RunRev's support for
printing is adequate for a modern RAD tool: one very old issue is
that one can't get at the settings made by the user in the Page Setup
dialog, but others do include the kludge which is FormatForPrinting,
the great difficulty you have now about working out exactly how many
pages are needed for a printout of a given field, and the fact that
you can't find out the limits of the marking engine within the
printed page for a given printer, despite the fact that many other
apps obviously do have access to this info, some of them on more than
one platform.
I would really like a packaged printing library offering a simple
reporting feature one could build on, with page numbers, headings,
previews, back and forth views and so on. I do not believe such a
thing could be constructed in pure Transcript (or Revscript or
whatever) today, because not all the building blocks are there.
The usual 2 Eurocents
Graham
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:50:56 -0800, Mark Swindell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are these printing issues among those being fixed in the next "bug-
free" release? i.e. Are they top priority at this point in Revs
evolution?
Mark
On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Hi Graham,
Yeah, I use it on Windows for printing, and you do have to jump
through some
hoops. As I recall, if you don't use it, your font metrics may be
off and
you may not get what you think you're printing.
I've also found setting the text field's margins to something
really large
(20) helped from characters at the end of a line form getting
clipped off.
HTH, Chipp
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
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