Printing problem on Windows machine

[Timothy Miller]

It's me, the OP on this thread.

A wise and generous soul has sent me a private message, including a 
model script necessary to print fields more than one printed page 
long, on a Windows machine. I'd suppose this has been discussed to 
death, so I'll let it rest.

I wonder if this is a sign from the Supreme Geek -- a stern warning 
of greater suffering to come if I continue to spurn my Macintosh.

Thanks to the list for being there when I need you.



Tim

>Greetings,
>
>I never imagined I'd stop using my trusty Macintosh. However, I'm 
>trying the stacks I use to run my business on a Windows XP machine, 
>at least temporarily. Except for minor adjustments of button types, 
>text margins and such, it seemed to work fine, until today.
>
>The problem command is not exactly unusual:
>
>revPrintField (the name of bg field "text")
>
>This would normally produce two or three pages of printer output. 
>It's worked perfectly on thousands of occasions on my Macintosh.
>
>On the XP machine there is something terribly wrong with the printed 
>output. Oddly, the first page prints just dandy. On subsequent 
>pages, two or three characters, even more, get printed on top of 
>each other. This mostly happens on the right hand side of each line, 
>though that is not consistent.
>
>I tried setting the formatforPrinting property of the stack to true. 
>No help. I know I'm following the proper procedure (rather 
>cumbersome, it seems) for setting that property, because the little 
>script I wrote reports the value of the property with an "answer" 
>dialog box.
>
>I tried setting the printmargins to a reasonable value -- a value 
>that works fine on the Windows machine on another stack, where I 
>print a card, not a field. No help. As far as I can tell, the 
>printmargins apply only to printing cards, anyway -- not fields.
>
>So, I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions would be appreciated. If this 
>issue has been discussed endlessly, a helpful link would probably be 
>sufficient.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim Miller
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