Can anyone help with the 'printable area' problem

[Richard Gaskin]

Graham Samuel wrote:

> It seems from earlier posts that neither MC or RR offer a way for a
> scripter to find out what the actual printable area is on a page. It
> seems so crashingly obvious to me that this is absolutely needed for
> any but the most primitive printing facility in an application that I
> think it's time we got some kind of solution, at least for Macs and
> PCs. If anyone with sufficient technical skills would like to take on
> a solution for either or both of these platforms (Applescript, Xcfn,
> DLL etc - I am not competent to judge), contact me off list and we'll
> see if we can come to some arrangement.

No need: see the printPaperSize global property

For all other print-related properties, open the Transcript Dictionary and
filter with "print".

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