formatForPrinting Again!
Timothy Due
tim at leaf25.com
Mon Jan 30 22:35:16 EST 2006
Hi Everyone,
I've been having some trouble with FormatForPrinting on Windows. The
software I am working on is a worksheet-maker program, so I need to be able
to print cards with many different sizes of fields and text.
Printing is done by creating a new printing stack, copying the card I want
to print across to it, saving, closing and deleting it, (to remove from
memory) setting FormatForPrinting to true, opening and then printing it into
the printPaperSize (minus margins).
After trying many many things, it seems that I can get 2 different types of
output.
1. With formatForPrinting OFF, I get a printout that looks quite nice,
except that if I have a long field across the page, words at the end of a
line sometimes get chopped off.
2. With formatForPrinting ON, none of the lines are chopped off at the end,
but instead words are wrapped earlier than on screen . This causes the text
to extend downwards beyond the bottom of the field, and so text at the
bottom of the field is chopped off the print out.
Neither of these two results are really acceptable. Is there any way I can
have a printout that doesn't cut off words at EITHER the side or the bottom?
Thanks in advance,
Timothy Due
http://www.leaf25.com
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