Printing options from answer printer

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 10 01:00:24 EST 2008


--- Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
> Hmmm. I don't get that on my Canon MP460.
> 
> If I make a button and put this script:
> 
> on mouseUp
>     answer printer
>     answer the printerSettings
> end mouseUp
> 
> I get a dialog that just has "QDCT". Is there some
> other format of  
> getting the printerSettings I should be using?
> 
> Bill
> 

Nope, the 'printerSettings is in whatever format the
printer driver returns and accepts back - so it can be
XML or just a binary string. As Revolution ahs to be
as cross-platform as possible, they decided to stick
with the printing features that appear to be present
accross different operating systems.

Jan Schenkel.

Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution
<http://www.quartam.com>

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