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


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