FormatForPrinting

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks Chipp - and Mark, I have no idea if better printing is coming  
along but it certainly should: I do not think RunRev's support for  
printing is adequate for a modern RAD tool: one very old issue is  
that one can't get at the settings made by the user in the Page Setup  
dialog, but others do include the kludge which is FormatForPrinting,  
the great difficulty you have now about working out exactly how many  
pages are needed for a printout of a given field, and the fact that  
you can't find out the limits of the marking engine within the  
printed page for a given printer, despite the fact that many other  
apps obviously do have access to this info, some of them on more than  
one platform.

I would really like a packaged printing library offering a simple  
reporting feature one could build on, with page numbers, headings,  
previews, back and forth views and so on. I do not believe such a  
thing could be constructed in pure Transcript (or Revscript or  
whatever) today, because not all the building blocks are there.

The usual 2 Eurocents

Graham

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:50:56 -0800, Mark Swindell  
<mdswindell at cruzio.com> wrote:
> Are these printing issues among those being fixed in the next "bug-
> free" release?  i.e. Are they top priority at this point in Revs
> evolution?
> Mark
>
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Graham,
>>
>> Yeah, I use it on Windows for printing, and you do have to jump
>> through some
>> hoops. As I recall, if you don't use it, your font metrics may be
>> off and
>> you may not get what you think you're printing.
>>
>> I've also found setting the text field's margins to something
>> really large
>> (20) helped from characters at the end of a line form getting
>> clipped off.
>>
>> HTH, Chipp
>>


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