Mysterious gray color

Marian Petrides mpetrides at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 11 14:54:07 EDT 2004


FWIW, I can confirm for Bill that the problem as described occurs when 
one chooses the Print command in the IDE.

M
On Aug 11, 2004, at 12:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 8/11/04 8:24 AM, Bill wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that info. But I guess my real question is the WYSIWG 
>> dilemma.
>> The gray background is only visible when you print the card. So if the
>> system gray color is showing through why does it appear white when 
>> you look
>> at the card?
>> I have solved it by setting the stack background color to white but 
>> my gripe
>> is that he gray color is invisible except when printing and I think 
>> that is
>> a RUNREV fault which should be corrected.
>
> Maybe; it depends on how you are doing your printing. If you are using 
> the pre-built Revolution printing commands ("revPrintText", etc.) then 
> it could be a Rev problem. These Rev handlers create temporary stacks 
> to produce the printout and may not be setting the background color 
> correctly (I'd have to go check, I can't remember.) If you are 
> creating your own printing stack, then you'll have to remember to set 
> the background color on that before running a print job.



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