Print No Dialog

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Fri Feb 25 14:16:37 EST 2011


On Feb 25, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> I just did this with and without the print dialog and open for printing. It printed to my default printer. 
> 
> I did notice however that there is no "fit to page" in the Page Setup. THAT would be a nice feature addition, especially since it's a darned good bet that a card on today's modern monitor is NOT going to fit snugly on a page. 
> 
> Is there a property I can set for that? I suppose I can do the math and figure out the percentage of scaling I would need to fit within the margins, but a property like "pageScaling" that could be set to a percentage, or none (100%) or auto (whatever fits) would be nice. 
> 
> I will peruse the help file and see what I can find.

See printScale

> 
> Bob
> 
> 
>> I suspect you have a PDF writer as your default printer?
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 25, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Rick Harrison wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jacqueline,
>>> 
>>> I tried excluding the "with dialog" for open print.  Doesn't work
>>> with out bringing up "Preview" first.
>>> 
>>> "Print this card" creates a .pdf file, and automatically
>>> opens "Preview".  I want to skip that step entirely and
>>> just have the card go directly to the printer without stopping.
>>> 
>>> Any other ideas?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Rick
> 
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University





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