on 2008-10-18 7:51 PM, Kyle Sluder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Others go the traditional route and write a custom NSView that they > print. You have to draw it yourself, but this gives you far more > control -- particularly useful when you want to know about the paper > size and orientation, or other variables specific to printing. You'll > get better results this way, but you'll probably put a lot more effort > into it.
For the kind of report the op is talking about, it may require very little effort. A financial summary is probably short, and it probably has a fixed format. For a report like that, I simply build up a single NSMutableAttributedString/NSTextStorage object containing the entire report and its formatting, then display it on screen and print it in an NSView. It's pretty easy to set up the printing margins, headers and footers, paper sizing and so on in the print dialog using existing Cocoa facilities (especially in Leopard). -- Bill Cheeseman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA www.quecheesoftware.com PreFab Software - www.prefabsoftware.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
