How To Print 5 by 8 Index Cards

[idenr]

I'm having a lot of trouble getting my stack to print on 5" by 8" index cards (Mac OS). For starters, there seems to be a large margin of white space that it wants to print above and to the left of the card information. This white space can changed by changing the printmargins property and it will appear to print to PDF correctly but when it goes to the printer it will print the bottom portion of the card but not the top. It's like it is trying to print the top of the card but the top is winding up off the page print area. I am sort of at a loss as to what to try next. Can anyone shed some light on how to get a card to print at 5"x8"? If I feed the printer letter size paper I can get it to print the card with the margins that I have set in the printmargins property. But when I try to make it print on a piece of letter size paper that has been cut in half I get the aforementioned problems. How does this work?

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Have you tried printing with either its "from" or "into" parameters?

Craig Newman

[capellan]

Hi All,

Does the stack "Print Setup" (from MC IDE) works with LiveCode?
I am sure this stack could help to solve this.

Al

[jacque]

You'll need to set up the printer parameters. Are you using the "answer printer" command?

[capellan]

Check the stack attached to this message
extracted from MC IDE.

Page Setup LC Stack.zip

[idenr]

Thank you all for the help. I found that by using the percentage reduction in the page setup dialog and by defining a custom page size I was able to print out almost the whole card (if I didn't reduce the size of the print it would be too big for the card even if in the print dialog I chose fit to page). Also helpful is the printmargins property which by default is one inch but can be reduced by set the printmargins top,left,bottom,right command in the message box.