printing from Runrev - another person with same request

Pat Trendler patrend at bigpond.com
Sun Mar 28 02:08:00 EST 2004


A few days ago Chris Sheffield wrote:

>>I'm trying to work out a good printing procedure.  What I've got is a
stack
>>with several cards containing text, graphics, etc. that need to be
printed.
>>I want to give the user the option of choosing which cards to print and
>>which not to print.  I'm thinking I could just mark the selected cards and
>>then send them all to the printer using "print marked cards".  The only
>>problem is that my printing involves fields that might have content not
>>immediately visible (scrolling).  If I print a card, will the entire
>>contents of fields be printed, or only what's visible on the screen?  If
it
>>will only print what's visible on the screen, I'm assuming I'd have to use
>>some combination of print, revPrintField, revPrintText, etc.  Seems like
>>kind of a nightmare, especially considering that the two methods have
their
>>own ways of displaying page setup and print setup dialogs from the OS.

>>Does anyone have a good method for printing that kind of combines all the
>>above things into one handler?


>>Thanks,

I have also been trying to work this out - in the process have used a lot of
paper.
I'd be happy just to get a list of steps. The more I read the docs the more
confused I get.


Hoping somebody can help,

patrend(at)bigpond.com



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