bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (08/04/89)
This article may be of general interest to anyone who has tried to print straight text from a HyperCard stack before (I can't imagine that other people haven't tried it before!). I also marked it as 'general interest' in the hopes that someone, somewhere, would read it... In my stacks, I have several text fields whose contents I would like to send to a printer (LaserWriter, actually, but it shouldn't make any difference). I'm looking for either a neat trick or a good XCMD that will allow me to do this. The PrintField XCMD by Mark Scherfling is the best I've found yet. (It is available from anonymous ftp to sumex-aim.stanford-edu, as is virtually every other public-domain piece of Mac software in the known universe.) It will print the contents of any container (field or variable, not just a field as the author suggests) in any font, point size, and style. Unfortunately, it chops off a good deal of the text at the beginning of each field I attempt to print. I'm printing rather long fields, but a good XCMD shouldn't be bothered by the amount of text it sends to the printer. What PrintField seems to be doing is to start its printing at a random location somewhere a short way into the document. When I print the same field twice, under otherwise identical circumstances, I get two different printouts. I'm at a loss for ideas. Would someone please tell me either - what I'm doing wrong with PrintField, - where I can find another, better XCMD, - how I can accomplish my goal without using XCMD's at all, or - if I should throw in the towel and become a hermit on a mountain somewhere? Thank you. -- | Brian S. Kendig | I feel more like I | bskendig | | Computer Engineering | did when I got here | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | | Princeton University | than I do now. | @PUCC.BITNET | | Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom / General Electric WP3 |
american@pnet51.cts.com (Jeff Iverson) (08/10/89)
I've got a better XCMD, heck it'll even number your pages... but it's not
quite out of the oven yet... maybe I could mail it to ya through the net...
(I know I didn't re-type his whole letter with the goofy little >'s but it was
a long one...)
Yours in HyperCard
Jeff
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