On Feb 21, 2015, at 3:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/21/2015 10:11 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: >> 1. When you print to a pdf file, you often get a blank page. I have >> not yet found that the solution offered (putting a ‘print break’ into >> the script) works for me. > > If the bounds of the printout overrun the available print area, LC will push > the content down to another page. It sounds like you may have margins at > either the top or bottom of the page that are too large to accomodate the > height of the printout. > > You can set the margins to a smaller number, or use the "print into rect" > syntax to scale the output to fit. Remember when dealing with margins that > the margins represent the amount of space around the rect of the card itself. > If your fields or other controls are not at the very edges of the card, then > they will be inset more than just the margin amounts.
Because of this last point, when I print to PDF I always arrange my field(s) on the card so the margins are what I want, and then set the printmargins to 0. That way there's no guesswork. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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