Printing only selected pages

[Sarah Reichelt]

>> I ran into a problem today, that I am surprised not
>> to have
>> encountered before. I use revPrintField to print a
>> multi-page
>> document and usually I print it to a PDF and then
>> print selected
>> pages if needed. Today I tried printing directly
>> from Revolution
>> (this is just a stack that runs from the IDE) and
>> despite selecting
>> page 1 to 1 in the print dialog, it tried to print
>> all the pages.
>>
>> I guess I have a couple of questions:
>> - does this happen to everyone, in which case I'll
>> bugzilla it?
>> - is there a workaround?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>
> Hi Sarah,
>
> The revPrintField and revPrintText commands are not
> designed to handle this. You could hack these
> yourself, but unfortunately, the engine does not give
> us a way to determine which pages the user wanted to
> print.
> I noticed that SuperCard 4.5 has a new 'printRange'
> property. Naturally, I'm one of the people who hope
> that this will be added to Revolution soon.
>
> Jan Schenkel.

Thanks Jan,

I'll add this to bugzilla as a feature request. If Rev allows us to  
use the standard print dialog, then it should respect the settings it  
gets back from that dialog.

Cheers,
Sarah