More questions regarding revPrintText II

[Rob Cozens]

Hi Again,

I'm now at:

on printTable 
theTable,theHeader,theFontSize,theLineLength,addedSpaceWidth,addedSpaceLocations
   if theLineLength < 1 then put offset(return,theTable)-1 into theLineLength
   set cursor to watch
   push card
   lock screen
   lock messages
   go to card 1 of stack "Serendipity Library.rev"
   if addedSpaceWidth is not empty then put justifyString(" 
",addedSpaceWidth) into theSpacer
   put empty into newTable
   repeat for each line tableLine in theTable
     put char 1 to theLineLength of tableLine into tableLine -- 
truncate unwanted or hidden text
     if addedSpaceWidth > 0 then
       repeat with x = the number of lines of addedSpaceLocations down to 1
         put theSpacer after char (line x of addedSpaceLocations) of tableLine
       end repeat
     end if
     put tableLine&return after newTable
   end repeat
   put newTable into field "Print Formatter"
   set the textFont of char 1 to -1 of field "Print Formatter" to "Courier New"
   --  set the textAlign of char 1 to -1 of field "Print Formatter" to "Center"
   set the textSize of char 1 to -1 of field "Print Formatter" to theFontSize
   set the printMargins to 36,36,36,36
   revShowPrintDialog true,true
   get the short date
   revPrintText (the htmlText of field "Print 
Formatter"),"<p>"&it&"</p>"&tab&"<p><b>"&theHeader&"</b><p>",tab&"<p><%pagenumber%></p>"
   put empty into field "Print Formatter"
   pop card
   unlock messages
   unlock screen
   set cursor to hand
end printTable

The issues I still need to resolve are:

1.  How to get the text center aligned? (The line I commented out 
produces a can't set that property error, and I've noticed one cannot 
manually set the alignment of a single line in a field: the whole 
field changes alignment; yet I know this can be done in html...what 
happens when that html is placed in the htmlText of a field?)

2.  How to get revPrintText to recognize changed print margins when 
determining lines per page?  Changing all four printMargins seemed 
only to effect the right margin.  revPrintText inserts a page break 
several lines above the footer, leaving too much blank space.

3.  I thought setting font & size for the header & footer would be 
easy; but I'm not getting anywhere there either.  According to the 
Rev dictionary, "If the textToPrint, headerText, or footerText 
contains <p> or a start/end tag pair, the revPrintText command 
assumes the text is in the same format as the htmlText property." 
Thus I assumed the "<p>"s above would instruct revPrintText to use 
the font & size specified in the htmlText of the field; but it isn't 
working.

-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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