john@crcaus.cactus.org (John R. Miller) (07/17/89)
Can anyone give me a hint on how to go about changing rPage in order to print closer to the perfs? In can't be totally trivial as I'm told at least one commercial data base just skips every eleventh one when printing mailing labels. All I get out of IM is an admonition not to change anything outside of the job subrecord (top of page II-150). Sure enough, simply changing rPage doesn't seem to have any effect. Thanks much for any help you can give. -- John R. Miller 512/331-0155 13102 Briar Hollow Dr. john@crcaus.cactus.org Austin, Texas 78729 ...cs.utexas.edu!bigtex!crcaus!john
casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) (07/18/89)
In article <270@crcaus.cactus.org> john@crcaus.cactus.org (John R. Miller) writes: > Can anyone give me a hint on how to go about changing rPage in > order to print closer to the perfs? The reason you get no effect by setting rPage is that the Printing Manager calculates this rectangle, using the paper size and the printer's inherent characteristics. With the exception of normal-mode printing on the ImageWriter II, the calculated rPage is in fact the largest rectangle that the printer is physically capable of printing on the selected paper size. The exception is that on the ImageWriter, 1/2" at the top of the page is excluded from the rectangle, for reasons having to do with the feed mechanism. However, the user can select the "no gaps between pages" option and then rPage will be calculated to go all the way up to the top of the page. If this is what you mean by printing closer to the perfs, then this is the only way to do it. Sermon: there is a reason why Apple tells you not to put values into fields in the print record, except for the few fields whose usage is spelled out. Anything you do by jamming values into, say, rPage will probably fail; and if it doesn't fail with the particular printer you're working with, it'll probably fail with a different kind of printer; and if it doesn't fail now, it's guaranteed to fail with a later version of the Printing Manager (such as the 7.0 release). David Casseres Exclaimer: Hey!