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Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 12:50 am
by shawnblc
I'm having some problems printing a card. My problem is that the whole card doesn't print. I've probably tried 20 different variations of code, but his is my latest. Any help from you veterans is very much appreciated.
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on mouseUp
hide button "btnPrint"
set the printPaperOrientation to "portrait"
--set the printMargins to 72,72,72,72
set the rect of group "grpAnswers" to the printRectangle
print card "gradeQuiz"
end mouseUp
Re: Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 1:13 am
by FourthWorld
If your card is larger than the printPaperRect you can scale the contents using the "print...into [rect] form - see the Dictionary entry for the "print" command for details.
Re: Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 10:00 am
by shawnblc
FourthWorld wrote:If your card is larger than the printPaperRect you can scale the contents using the "print...into [rect] form - see the Dictionary entry for the "print" command for details.
I still don't understand this printing stuff, but I appreciate your input. I do have everything printing now, but it's a hack job.
Re: Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 6:25 pm
by jacque
You don't say how you solved it, but just in case: the "print into rect" command scales the printout to fit on the page. That means you don't need to set the rect of the group on the card, instead use "print into rect" so that the engine will shrink the output to fit. Maybe you've already done that.
Re: Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 7:19 pm
by shawnblc
jacque wrote:You don't say how you solved it, but just in case: the "print into rect" command scales the printout to fit on the page. That means you don't need to set the rect of the group on the card, instead use "print into rect" so that the engine will shrink the output to fit. Maybe you've already done that.
I'll try that. Thank you Jacque. I simply changed the size of my stack to 550 (width) and reduced the font size to 9. It's a little small, but it's all printing on the page instead of not printing half of what I see on the card.
Re: Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 8:32 pm
by shawnblc
Thank you Richard and Jacque, that's exactly what I needed. It just took me awhile to wrap my head around it (several hours)! Looks exactly how I was hoping it would look.
Re: Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 3:38 pm
by andrewferguson
If you are on windows, the formatForPrinting property might help. It sets the card to use the printers fonts, instead of the screen fonts.
Andrew
Re: Having some problems printing a card
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:08 am
by shawnblc
andrewferguson wrote:If you are on windows, the formatForPrinting property might help. It sets the card to use the printers fonts, instead of the screen fonts.
Andrew
I'm on a Mac.