Scott Rossi wrote:
Does anyone have a primer or tutorial on printing from Rev (revPrint)? The roughly 40 or so properties listed in the dictionary plus print/open printing/answer printer is just a tad overwhelming...
I don't know of much that's available outside of Rev's User Guide, but the Guide has a full chapter on it that isn't bad.
What I usually do is create a printing stack that I store as a substack. Each card represents one print template. When time to print, I open the printing stack invisibly at the right card, gather up the necessary data, and put it into the fields in the template. It's a big advantage if you name your template fields the same as the stack fields; that way you can do loops that match the fields up without much trouble.
It's also good to remember that all printers have their own margins in addition to the ones you can set in Rev. Most can't print closer than a half inch from the top; the side edges vary by printer. Even the ones that say they print edge-to-edge usually have a small margin at the sides. If you set Rev's margins to 1 inch on each side, and the printer can't print closer than a half inch on a side, you'll get 1.5" margins on the paper. Make all my left-side template fields butt up against the very left edge of the card, leaving no extra space. Do the same at the top of the card. That way when you set the printmargins, the top and left edges of the printout will be as close as possible to the correct amount.
For the type of printing I usually do, that's close enough. But if you need more precision, you can use the printRectangle property to find out what the printer margins actually are so you can account for them before setting your own additional printmargins.
There are so many printing controls, as you say, that it would help if we know what kind of printout you're doing. You don't usually need to set them all, often the defaults are fine. It mostly depends on what kind of output you're going for. For example, if you aren't printing booklets, you can usually ignore gutters, two-sided printing, etc.
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