Print problem
Joe Lewis Wilkins
pepetoo at cox.net
Sat Nov 8 12:05:40 EST 2008
Answers found. Older commands that are now deprecated. Just have
trouble reading the small print of the dictionary; and the magnifying
option/cmd/+ is cumbersome. It would be neat if the font size of the
dictionary could be made larger.
Thanks to all,
Joe Wilkins
On Nov 8, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Guess I found the answer where the last line in dictionary says:
>
> "If you use the revShowPrintDialog command outside a handler where a
> revPrintField or revPrintText command is executed, the
> revShowPrintDialog command has no effect. The command sets printing
> options only for the currently executing handler."
>
> So I need to be able to set the scale and orientation using
> something other than the two properties that aren't available until
> 2.9. Any suggestions for doing that? ANYONE?
>
> TIA, Joe Wilkins
>
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Looks like I need to stay up later to get your responses. (smile)
>>
>> Thats what I was looking for, but *revShowPrintDialog true,true*
>> doesn't show a dialog of any kind. This is under 2.6.1 on a G4
>> running 9.2.1.
>>
>> I'm using Print card from (x,y) into pageRect. but that shouldn't
>> mess things up. Should it. Totally different Menu items.
>>
>> Joe Wilkins
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