Printing examples?

[graham samuel]

Folks, it's a long time since I've tried to develop a printing routine 
in RunRev and I find I want to do quite simple stuff that I would 
imagine other people have done dozens or even hundreds of times, which 
is to print a field of indefinite length on however many pages it takes 
to print it on, respecting the preset paper size and print margins and 
adding in stuff like page numbers and maybe running headers. I see that 
it is all possible (apart from my long-standing gripe that a RunRev 
script can't know the actual size of the available printable area on 
any specific printer) but I am surprised to say the least that I have 
to reinvent the wheel in this way.

Would anyone be kind enough to point me at a reasonably simple 
multi-page print routine? I couldn't find one in the published 
examples, apart from Hugh Senior's PrintA4 from his Scripter's 
Scrapbook, which I'm looking at now (thanks Hugh) but it doesn't do 
exactly what I was expecting.

While I'm asking for help with printing, can anyone explain what I do 
to get a print dialog (not the page setup dialog) to come up on a PC? 
According to the RunRev documentation:

> The open printing with dialog form opens the print dialog box on Mac 
> OS systems. On Unix or Windows systems, this form acts like the open 
> printing form, and no dialog box appears. If the as sheet form is 
> used, the dialog box appears as a sheet on OS X systems.

Well, I would like a dialog box to appear, as it does on all mainstream 
PC apps including Microsoft's own, so how is it done (I should say I'm 
developing on a Mac at the moment, and a quick trip to my XP machine 
does confirm this; but if anyone has the answer it would save further 
experimentation)?

TIA

Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France