Mark, Thank you very much for the suggestions.
If I print to 8.5x11 paper, I can use the following code to print the postcard full page landscape mode. on mouseUp set the printPaperOrientation to "landscape" put 18 into myMargin put myMargin,myMargin,item 2 of the printPapersize - myMargin,item 1 of the printPapersize - 72 into myPrintRect print this card into myPrintRect end mouseUp If I am in the IDE and do a Print Card so that I can set the Tray to Tray 1 which has the 4.5x6 inch postcards, when it prints, it puts the card into the bottom left quadrant of the postcard. If I change the tray to autoselect, and set the Page Setup to “postcard”, it prints centered on the bottom third of the postcard. If I manually set the print area (notice Top is a negative number) it prints onto the postcards on tray 1. print card from 10,10 to 413,287 into 0,-255,780,255 Setting a negative Top parameter seems to have done the trick. Weird. Thanks for the suggestions, it wasn’t the solution but it did get me thinking and experimenting in ways I didn’t do yesterday. Thanks, Kee On Aug 14, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Kee, > > I'm in a hurry actually, so I don't have time to read everything carefully > right now, but I do something like this: > > put 72 into myMargin > put myMargin,myMargin,item 2 of the printPapersize - myMargin,item 1 of the > printPapersize - 72 into myPrintRect > print this card into myPrintRect > > This should be for landscape format. You can change the margin. Feel free to > send me an e-mail if this doesn't work for you. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Installer Maker for LiveCode: > http://qery.us/468 > > Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" > http://qery.us/3fi > > LiveCode on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > > On 8/14/2014 21:11, kee nethery wrote: >> I’m printing postcards onto individually cut postcards and they are a custom >> paper size (4.25 x 6 inches). The stack displays the postcard text in >> landscape mode but the postcards go into the printer in portrait orientation >> (smallest edge gets sucked into the printer). Normally I’d set landscape >> mode and fit to page size, make sure I’d selected the postcard size and >> print. Worked great only now it doesn’t. It seems that whatever code is >> printing is ignoring the landscape mode when printing to fit the paper size. >> >> If I print without the “fit paper size” it will actually print landscape >> mode but it prints around 1/4th the normal size as if it has decided the >> postcard is actually the size of 8.5x11 paper and scales the image down >> accordingly. >> >> I’ve tried making the stack larger to compensate and it just prints it >> larger but from the same starting point on the page so most of the text ends >> up off the edge of the postcard. >> >> I’m using Mac OS X 10.9.4 and I’ve tried it with LiveCode 6.6.2 and Livecode >> 5.5.4 >> >> I did figure out a way to print through a bunch of trial and error but when >> I moved that recipe to another’s machine, it prints in the wrong place on >> the postcard. >> >> Is there someone out there with printer foo who I can hire to fix this for >> me? >> >> Kee Nethery >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
