peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (06/16/88)
I have two questions regarding printing.
1. I'm writing an application that should have Tall Adjusted turned on by
default if the imagewriter is chosen and have Larger Print Area turn on
by default if the laserwriter is chosen. These do not appear to be documented
fields in Inside Macintosh. What is the best way to go about setting these
attributes from within a program?
2. If I follow Inside Macintosh's printing guidelines (propen, propendoc,
propenpage,prclosepage,prclosedoc, and then de-spool if necessary),
I find that no printing is done until the de-spool is finally performed.
Effectively, the entire document is spooled to memory/disk and then
printed. Any other program that I test seems to print each page as it
is processed. Are all these programs breaking guidelines or is there a
way to force de-spooling to take place "legally" at any time during the
printing loop?
Any and all comments appreciated.
--
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDUkaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) (06/17/88)
In article <1115@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes: >I have two questions regarding printing. >1. I'm writing an application that should have Tall Adjusted turned on by >default if the imagewriter is chosen and have Larger Print Area turn on >by default if the laserwriter is chosen. These do not appear to be documented >fields in Inside Macintosh. What is the best way to go about setting these >attributes from within a program? You Validate your print record, then look at prStl.wDev to see what device is chosen. The high byte is the device number, which is 1 for the Imagewriter and 3 for the Laserwriter. The problems with doing this are 1) you won't be able to keep up with other device codes assigned to other manufacturers [e.g. it's an OK kludge for one site, but don't release it to the world], and 2) Apple makes no guarantees about the usage of undocumented bits, so someday the LW driver may change the meaning or position of the flag bit with no warning to you. >2. If I follow Inside Macintosh's printing guidelines (propen, propendoc, >propenpage,prclosepage,prclosedoc, and then de-spool if necessary), >I find that no printing is done until the de-spool is finally performed. >Effectively, the entire document is spooled to memory/disk and then >printed. Any other program that I test seems to print each page as it >is processed. Are all these programs breaking guidelines or is there a >way to force de-spooling to take place "legally" at any time during the >printing loop? See the Tech Note on "spool-a-page, print-a-page" (#125). Basically, this is a Driver issue, not an application issue. Printing each page as it is spooled causes each page to be a separate job, so that in a shared environment other printout can be interspersed between pages of your output. ----- Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)
gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (06/18/88)
In article <1115@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes: >I have two questions regarding printing. > >1. I'm writing an application that should have Tall Adjusted turned on by >default if the imagewriter is chosen and have Larger Print Area turn on For Tall Adjusted, some trial and error lead me to this: BitSet(@printrecord^^.prStl.wDev,13); -- Gerald A. Edgar TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet Department of Mathematics gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University gae@osupyr.UUCP Columbus, OH 43210 70715,1324 CompuServe