Printing (Preview in LC/screen vs Printer/PDF)

[Paul Dupuis]

A correction. The images are reduced to 1/4 size ONLY when printing to 
PDF on Windows (printing to paper results in the image at expected size)

This could be specific to Windows and the PDF "printer" (Foxit) being 
used. More testing is required. Premature posting ;-)


On 10/23/2022 4:52 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> I know this topic has been covered previously, probably many many 
> times, but my search skills are failing me.
>
> We have a "printing stack" in our app that, among other things, 
> provides a "Print Preview" view. This takes the printer margins, page 
> size, orientation, etc and creates a stack with the dimensions of the 
> page and some guidelines showing the margins, headers, footers, and so 
> on. A rectangle "PrintArea", is set to the available print area inside 
> the margins. Whatever is being printed is then placed inside this 
> "PrintArea". So if the contents of a field is being printed a field is 
> sized fit inside the "PrintArea" and bottom of the field is adjusted 
> by the pageHeights. If am image is being printed, the image is scaled 
> to fit inside the "PrintArea" and so on.
>
> All well and good, except for images. If I size and image to fit ON 
> THE SCREEN within the "PrintArea" and then I print it (to a Printer OR 
> to PDF, the image appear are roughly 1/4 size. I assume this is the 
> 72/75 dpi screen resolutions being put on a 300 dpi PDF or printer?
>
> Is there some easy Livecode trick to just get images to print in a PDF 
> or on paper at the same size as seen on the screen?
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
>
>
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