OK, maybe it wasn¹t using print break that solved the problem for me. The other thing in my script was to define a rect and use the print card into rect form of the print card command as Jacquie suggests. Anyway, the script I provided works, and avoids the Œextra page¹ problem, so maybe start there and work backwards.
Terry... On 22/02/2015 9:41 pm, "Graham Samuel" <livf...@mac.com> wrote: >Not quite sure I understand this (I did once, but i¹ve got rusty - oil >can!). I assumed that the following code would exactly fill a page: > > set the printCardBorders to true > set the printPaperSize to (the width of this card) & "," & (the height >of this card) > set the printMargins to "0,0,0,0" > print this card > >But maybe you're saying that there is some hidden factor here. One thing >I can think of in a physical bit of paper (which a PDF isn't, really) is >that only certain printers can print to the very edge, so there might be >a kind of hidden margin (is this "the available print area"?). I am not >sure if the printPaperRect comes into this: as far as I can see, it >shouldn't, since the printMargins are measured from the edge of the page >according to the LC Dictionary. The printing might be cropped if >edge-to-edge isn't available, but that should not increase the number of >pages printed, should it? > >I will experiment some more. > >Graham > > >> On 21 Feb 2015, at 21:14, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> >>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 Œprint break¹ 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. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > >_______________________________________________ >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
