Small Print Problem

Robert Presender rpresender at cox.net
Mon Nov 28 14:20:09 EST 2005


Jacque, thank you for your reply.  Will try your suggestion.
Regards ... Bob

On Nov 27, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Jacque wrote:

> Robert Presender wrote:
>
>> The first page prints fine. Using .88 as printScale, the textsize of
>> ListField is
>>  between 9 and 10.  Subsequent pages,  containing  only the text of
>> ListField,
>> use revPrintText but the printed text size is the initial size of 10.
>>
>> Since I don't know how to emulate a printScale in revPrintText,  I
>> change the
>>  textSize of ListField to 9.  This works fine but the text appearance 
>> is
>> a little smaller
>>  than the first page. I would like subsequent pages  to be scaled like
>> the first page.
>
> I think the only way to make sure you really get a good size match is 
> to
> use the same scale for all pages in the printout. Leave the field font
> size alone, and instead, scroll the field via script and print each 
> page
> sequentially using the same settings. See the "pageHeights" property,
> which reports the scroll settings required to print each page of the
> field. That's what revPrintText uses, actually.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>




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