Open printing to PDF bug?

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Sep 25 12:34:51 EDT 2010


A workaround might be to take a picture of the region, put that on  
another card, rotate that, and print from that card.  -- Dar

On Sep 25, 2010, at 5:59 AM, William de Smet wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for the replies.
> Indeed it seems that Printmargins and PrintScale affect the cuttoff of
> text and images.
> Thats a pity because I want to increase text and images by setting the
> PrintScale to to 1.1.
> It looks as if Printscale doesn't work with images and with 'printing
> to PDF'  and printPaperOrientation 'Landscape'.
>
> And I was so happy when they announced 'printing to PDF'!!!
>
> greetings,
>
> William
>
>
>
> 2010/9/24 JosepM <jmyepes at mac.com>:
>>
>> This work for me, without change the exact size of the elements,  
>> but l lost
>> about 2 cm at the bottom of the page.
>> I need to force the stack size and move to some position that I  
>> can edit
>> later, so if I use it in my laptop the stack is resized and when I  
>> print the
>> PDF only show the visible area of the stack. The idea is make this  
>> stack
>> invisible.
>>
>> Put the margin to 0 left about 2 cm at top and at bottom, left and  
>> right are
>> about 1cm...
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   set the location of this stack to 600,600
>>   set the width of this stack to 595
>>   set the height of this stack to 842
>>
>>   set the printPaperSize to "595,842"
>>   put "595,842" into thePaperSize
>>
>>   put "0" into theMargin
>>
>>   -- get the page area:
>>   set the printMargins to theMargin,theMargin,theMargin,theMargin
>>   -- put theMargin,theMargin, item 1 of thePaperSize - theMargin,  
>> item 2 of
>> thePaperSize - theMargin into destinationRect
>>   -- print into that rectangle:
>>   open printing to pdf "/Users/joss/Desktop/card_test.pdf"
>>   print this card --into destinationRect
>>   close printing
>>
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> Salut,
>> Josep
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