Printing with revPrintField

[Kevin Miller]

On 25/2/02 2:42 pm, Dan Friedman <dan at clearvisiontech.com> wrote:

> Greetings once again,
> 
> I am trying to print a field with text formatted into columns.  The columns
> are set by setting the tabStops.  It looks great on screen, and "print card"
> prints it just fine.  However, when I use:
> 
> revShowPrintDialog true,true
> revPrintField the name of field "tText"
> 
> It prints, but the columns are no longer formatted properly.  Am I doing
> something wrong?
> 
> Here's what I think is going on... If you set the tabStops to
> "72,162,267,348,477" for example, then the first parameter is 72, one inch
> on screen.  However, I think that Revolution is not considering the dpi of
> the printer.  So, if you print to a 300 dpi printer, 72 is no linger an
> inch.  Am I right?  Is this a bug?  Or do I suffer from cranial-rectal
> inversion?
> 
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

This glitch will be fixed in the final shipping version of 1.1.1.  Thanks
for the report.

Kevin

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