Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynch, Jonathan wrote: For my current project - it is not that important. For the idea I have for a future project, it would be important. It involves a complex sort of internet publishing of a multimedia form of daily/weekly/monthly magazines. FWIW, one of the largest Internet publishing projects

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-07 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
. Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:04 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aha! That might be why my own printing problems exist (former thread) under Windows. However, this can be a bit more serious for me. I need to

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-07 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aha! That might be why my own printing problems exist (former thread) under Windows. However, this can be a bit more serious for me. I need to be able to change the text while formatForPrinting is set, because I need to shuffle text between fields

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-07 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
, 2005 4:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 1/6/05 10:56 PM, David Squance wrote: > >>> If the stack's formatForPrinting property is true, the setting of the >>> windowBoundingRect

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-07 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Steiner Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:05 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... > Unfortunately, there is still a difference between the two. It is a > small difference, but it is the

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-07 Thread Chipp Walters
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/6/05 10:56 PM, David Squance wrote: If the stack's formatForPrinting property is true, the setting of the windowBoundingRect property is ignored when the stack is opened or maximized. It's a necessary design decision. Normally the windowBoundingRect prevents stacks f

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/6/05 10:56 PM, David Squance wrote: If the stack's formatForPrinting property is true, the setting of the windowBoundingRect property is ignored when the stack is opened or maximized. Is this a bug or is there some reason? It's a necessary design decision. Normally the windowBoundingRect p

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread David Squance
then set the stack's formatForPrinting property to true before opening the stack to print it. How is this done? Do you change the setting, close the stack and then reopen it, or can it be added to a preopenstack handler? If the stack's formatForPrinting property is true, the setting of the wi

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread James Steiner
> Unfortunately, there is still a difference between the two. It is a > small difference, but it is there. > > I am not too worried about it for this project, because, for my > purposes, I can just use either the Modern or Garamond fonts, for which > the printer fonts are quite close, but a teeny

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:23 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... Jonathan, This comment may account for the anomalous behavior you encountered (again, from Rev Docs): Important! Fonts inherited from another stack are not updated when you se

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Jerry Daniels
something. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Daniels Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... It's not the answer to world peace, but formatForPr

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Jerry Daniels
Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... It's not the answer to world peace, but formatForPrinting property keeps the fonts consistent looking between printer and screen on Windows...at least it did with Rev 2.2. Haven't had to try it with 2.5. -Jerry On Jan 6, 2005, at 4:48 PM,

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Jerry Daniels
be it depends on the font or something. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Daniels Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... It's not the answer to world

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
I just tried it, and it was different. Maybe it depends on the font or something. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Daniels Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Jerry Daniels
It's not the answer to world peace, but formatForPrinting property keeps the fonts consistent looking between printer and screen on Windows...at least it did with Rev 2.2. Haven't had to try it with 2.5. -Jerry On Jan 6, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Anyone try this? Jerry Daniels say

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Chipp Walters
Anyone try this? Jerry Daniels says it solved his printing woes. Description Use the formatForPrinting property to improve printout appearance on Windows systems. Value: The formatForPrinting of a stack is true or false. By default, the formatForPrinting property of newly created stacks is set t

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
same as on the screen. The last sounds easiest - but I don't know if kerning is possible. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Steiner Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:10 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows pri

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread James Steiner
[ Re: differences in text rendering on screen vs. on printer in windows, and the absense of differences in macintosh ] The main reason there's a difference is the huge difference in resolution on the two surfaces. Screens are around 90 dots per inch (my 17" LCD is about 105 dpi). Printers now-a-da

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
exactly like it is supposed to - but all of these ideas are really very complicated. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:55 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... Lynch

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynch, Jonathan wrote: > But - somehow MS word manages to look the same between both. > Not to sound paranoid or anything, but I tend to imagine it > was designed that way on purpose to make it tougher for > competing programs. It seems you're not paranoid at all. The decades' old rumors of Micro$o

RE: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Lynch, Jonathan
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank D. Engel, Jr. Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:41 AM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: More on Windows printing... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should be able to use any TTF with Rev. The issue with different font metrics is a Windows

Re: More on Windows printing...

2005-01-06 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should be able to use any TTF with Rev. The issue with different font metrics is a Windows problem, not a font problem. This issue does not exist on the Mac, for example. Arial is a good example of a TrueType font. However, the printer metric