Printing examples?

[graham samuel]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:49:07 +1000,  "Dwayne Rothe" 
<drothe at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Graham,
> I think RunRev is definately limited in it's print functions 
> especially when
> using win os.
> I  have been trying to find a way to have the default Windows print 
> preview
> window appear from runrev.
> Type res://C:\WINDOWS\System32\shdoclc.dll/preview.dlg into the 
> address bar
> of your webbrowser to
> see the BLANK example. If we could some how find a way to load our 
> projects
> pages to it we would have
> all the functions it offers like multiple page view, zoom-, zoom+, page
> setup e.t.c
>
> For now I am using a clumsy but effective way of giving the user a 
> multiple
> page preview(divides document into correct amount of pages for 
> printing as
> per papersize). This is acheived using XMLNS routine and a small HTA 
> script.
> Paste the code below into a text file and rename it print.hta copy it 
> to
> your windows TEMP folder.

[snip]

Gosh - I could never have done this in 100 years, especially since I'm 
much more familiar with Macs than PCs (nevertheless my users are 
generally PC users). Your complete instructions have gone into my 
scrapbook and will be pressed into service.

I'm glad you agree that RunRev needs to pay more attention to printing 
issues. Nobody has yet suggested a simple Transcript method (I mean one 
that works without non-Transcript code) of displaying the kind of print 
dialog you get in pretty well all published Windows apps. But the 
preview idea is certainly interesting.

Thanks very much

Graham
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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France