Centering printing on the page

[Jim Hurley]

Thanks Phil. Worked great. I should have taken a closer look at the dictionary.

But, oddly enough, it printed to Preview--which would have been all right, since I can print from Preview.

But then I selected Print Card from the File menu and that brought up the ususl print dialog box.

And then I went back to the stack and then "print card from tTopLeft to tBottomRight into 40,40,560,560" brought up the print dialog box.

Is there a way to direct the "Print card from ...." command in my print button to direct printing to  either Preview or to bring up the standard print dialog box?

Jim



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> Message: 21
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:25:24 -0800
> From: Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Centering printing on the page
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> Hi Jim,
> 
> I would try using the [into pageRect] option on the print command, along 
> with what you're already doing.
> 
> If that didn't work, I would fiddle with the printMargins to push the 
> oval toward the center.
> 
> Phil Davis
> 
> 
> On 11/18/13, 10:15 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:
>> I would like to print the area within a graphic "oval".
>> Here is my script:
>> 
>>          put topleft of grc "oval" into tTopLeft
>>          put bottomRight of grc "oval" into tBottomRight
>>          print card from tTopLeft to tBottomRight
>> 
>> The printed oval is not centered on the page. There is a considerable border on the left, and consequently the oval is cut off on the right.
>> 
>> How do I center the printing?
>> 
>> Thank,
>> 
>> Jim Hurley
>>