PrintPaperRectangle

[Ben Rubinstein]

By synchronicity, I start writing a very similar message a few days ago.

I stopped writing the email when I'd typed the words "is there another print 
property I should be using?" and as is often the case when I draft a 
despairing message to the use- list, this prompted me to look a bit harder and 
find the answer.

My problem, at least, was solved by finding the printPaperSize, which 
correctly returns (for A4 at 100%) "595,842" - a reasonable approximation for 
A4 paper converted to inches at 72dpi.

 > Can anyone shed some light on this please.

Simple answer: it's a bug. At some point the printPaperRectangle has been 
nobbled to be exactly the same as the printRectangle. I've reported this as
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19997

In the meantime, the printPaperSize is your friend, provided the page setup is 
at default scale and orientation: in this case, the printPaperRectangle should 
be the same as printPaperSize with two zeros.

However if you're not at default scale/orientation, you're a bit out of luck. 
You can reasonably infer orientation from the printRectangle, but there's not 
a reliable way to figure out the true scaled paper size from the combination 
of printRectangle and printPaperSize (which is why we need printPaperRectangle).

Ben


On 30/06/2017 19:17, Terence Heaford via use-livecode wrote:
> LC 8.1.4, MacOS 10.12.5
> 
> Print Paper Rectangle returns 8,8,834,587 for A4 Landscape.
> 
> This does not seem to match the description in the dictionary?
> 
> "The printPaperRectangle property contains four comma-separated integers and is in points.
> The default value reflects the default values of the printPaperSize and printPaperOrientation.
> The four numbers represent the left, top, right and bottom of the rectangle being printed to.
> The rectangle is relative to the top-left of the page, and the left and top will currently always be 0.”
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this please.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Terry
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