[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Printing Fields from HyperTalk

dmittman@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Mittman) (11/30/90)

I would like to print a field which contains a nicely formatted user's
guide. The field is small, but contains 8K characters. If I do this:

print bg fld "Explanation" of card "Title Card"

I get the text printed out with my fancy styling, but "snaked" like
a newspaper (multiple columns). I want my help text to come out in
one column. Any hints? Please send responses directly to me, I will
post the "best" back to comp.sys.mac.hypercard.

				- David Mittman
				DMittman@Beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV

smelly@polari.UUCP (Tom Benedict) (12/02/90)

Printing fields from HC2.0 is a modal operations. IEther you get AALL the
styles or you get NONE of the styles including margins.
You might try changing the width of the field to the width of your paper.
You could do this under script control so no one would see it. I expect  it
should print only one column and conserve your formatting.
Good Luck.