Page numbers

[dalkin]

Is there a known way of forcing page numbering when printing from a scrolling text field? Being a wordy sort of bloke, I've got about 8 pages I'd like people to print but without page numbers, it gets a bit messy. I'd do it as a pdf but I want user edits as well.

[Janschenkel]

Use the 'revPrintText' command: it allows you to pass header and footer text which can include special expressions - from the documentation:

You can also use the special values <%pageNumber%> and <%numPages%> in the textToPrint, headerText, or footerText. These expressions are replaced with the current page number or total number of pages respectively.

So basically you'd have something like:

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on mouseUp
  put the htmlText of field "Scrolling Field" into tBodyHtmlText
  put "Page: <%pageNumber%> of <%numPages%>" into tFooterText
  revPrintText tBodyHtmlText, empty, tFooterText
end mouseUp

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

[dalkin]

Cheers for that, Jan. The kids can make their own damn breakfast this morning - I'm going to try it now!