Printing problem on Windows machine

[Lynch, Jonathan]

Hello, I am the one who sent that script to Timothy...

Sarah, if you look in the script for the print button in Task Mage, the
script is in there (the print task section). It is very much oriented
towards printing a task in Task Mage, and as such is not really written
as a general purpose substitution for print field. It does contain the
elements for creating such a thing, but it would take a bit of
adaptation.

Actually, it contains the elements for printing the contents of all the
fields on a card, including scrolling fields, at one time. 

Take care,

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Timothy
Miller
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:19 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Printing problem on Windows machine

  Hi Sarah,

Oops. This is my second reply. A few seconds ago, Eudora 
automatically snipped part of the quoted message, and I overlooked a 
typo. Here it goes again:

**************************

The wise and generous person subscribes to the list. I think I'll 
hand your question off to him. He might prefer to post his own script.

I'll quote the brief description he sent to me. I don't think he'd mind:


Begin quote

The way it basically works is to copy each field from the card to a 
printing stack. If a field is larger than a page, then it creates a 
second card in the printing stack and copies the large field to that 
card. It then divides up the text between the two fields in the 
printing stack. It continues this process until enough cards with 
copies of the large field have been created to hold all of the text 
without any of it getting lost.

End quote


If I understand the suggested script, the general approach is to use 
"Print Card" or "Print Stack" instead of printfield. As far as I can 
tell, Print Card works fine on my Windows machine, as long as I get 
the print rect and printmargins right.

Printfield seems to work okay in Windows, as long as the printed 
output is no longer than one page. The printer goes crazy on page two 
and subsequent pages. I suppose this is a known problem. I can't get 
to bugzilla at the moment.

There are probably other workarounds. For instance, it might be 
possible to shuttle lines in and out of the field, so it never 
contains more than one printable page, then use printfield 
repeatedly, then replace the original text when printing is 
completed. I don't know -- haven't tried that.

Any other ideas?

What a pain in the neck! It would be WAY easier to start using my 
Friendly Macintosh again. I had some other reasons to try my stacks 
on my Windows machine, but it might not be worth the trouble, and 
it's probably bad karma.

I hope this was a teensy bit helpful.


Cheers,


Tim

>  > A wise and generous soul has sent me a private message, including a
>>  model script necessary to print fields more than one printed page
>>  long, on a Windows machine. I'd suppose this has been discussed to
>>  death, so I'll let it rest.
>
>Hi Tim,
>
>Could you quote the script here so it is available to us all? I don't
>need it at the moment, but as another Mac person, I might run into
>this problem at some stage, so I would love to be able to find this in
>the archives.
>
>Thanks,
>Sarah
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