Mac printing "Scale to fit paper size"

[kee nethery]

Mark, 

Thank you very much for the suggestions.

If I print to 8.5x11 paper, I can use the following code to print the postcard full page landscape mode.

on mouseUp
   set the printPaperOrientation to "landscape" 
   put 18 into myMargin
   put myMargin,myMargin,item 2 of the printPapersize - myMargin,item 1 of the printPapersize - 72 into myPrintRect
   print this card into myPrintRect
end mouseUp

If I am in the IDE and do a Print Card so that I can set the Tray to Tray 1 which has the 4.5x6 inch postcards, when it prints, it puts the card into the bottom left quadrant of the postcard. If I change the tray to autoselect, and set the Page Setup to “postcard”, it prints centered on the bottom third of the postcard.

If I manually set the print area (notice Top is a negative number) it prints onto the postcards on tray 1. 

   print card from 10,10 to 413,287 into 0,-255,780,255

Setting a negative Top parameter seems to have done the trick. Weird. Thanks for the suggestions, it wasn’t the solution but it did get me thinking and experimenting in ways I didn’t do yesterday. 

Thanks,
Kee




On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Kee,
> 
> I'm in a hurry actually, so I don't have time to read everything carefully right now, but I do something like this:
> 
> put 72 into myMargin
> put myMargin,myMargin,item 2 of the printPapersize - myMargin,item 1 of the printPapersize - 72 into myPrintRect
> print this card into myPrintRect
> 
> This should be for landscape format. You can change the margin. Feel free to send me an e-mail if this doesn't work for you.
> 
> --
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> 
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> On 8/14/2014 21:11, kee nethery wrote:
>> I’m printing postcards onto individually cut postcards and they are a custom paper size (4.25 x 6 inches). The stack displays the postcard text in landscape mode but the postcards go into the printer in portrait orientation (smallest edge gets sucked into the printer). Normally I’d set landscape mode and fit to page size, make sure I’d selected the postcard size and print. Worked great only now it doesn’t. It seems that whatever code is printing is ignoring the landscape mode when printing to fit the paper size.
>> 
>> If I print without the “fit paper size” it will actually print landscape mode but it prints around 1/4th the normal size as if it has decided the postcard is actually the size of 8.5x11 paper and scales the image down accordingly.
>> 
>> I’ve tried making the stack larger to compensate and it just prints it larger but from the same starting point on the page so most of the text ends up off the edge of the postcard.
>> 
>> I’m using Mac OS X 10.9.4 and I’ve tried it with LiveCode 6.6.2 and Livecode 5.5.4
>> 
>> I did figure out a way to print through a bunch of trial and error but when I moved that recipe to another’s machine, it prints in the wrong place on the postcard.
>> 
>> Is there someone out there with printer foo who I can hire to fix this for me?
>> 
>> Kee Nethery
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