Graham Samuel wrote: > No, Richard - I hesitate to suggest that you may have made a mistake > (if you have, it's the first one - and I've been reading your posts > for years), but in my environment, PrintPaperSize gives the size of > the **page** (like US letter or A4) in pixels, but not the printable > area within it. For example on my Epson inkjet printer, the maximum > printable area on an A4 page is defined by margins 0.13, 0.13, 0.13 > and 0.57 inches. Without knowing this (and really why should my user > be expected to look this up in a manual?), I won't be able to offer > features like "use maximum area on page" and, to be safe I will have > to set the margins of my printable area (the printMargins) larger > than they need to be. > > It's that information (which is certainly available to other apps - > my favourite Mac example is GraphicConverter, but there are plenty of > Window apps that use this info too) that I wish to be able to > extract. In principle I might like to know other stuff, like whether > my user has picked a colour printer or a black-and-white one, but > right now I would be content with being able to detect this simple > rectangle.
Gotcha. No, it's not in the engine, and hence not in the manual. If memory serves, Scott Raney had something to say about this one not long ago -- I can't recall the details, but I think he characterized it as non-trivial (as much as I agree it would be useful, esp. if the printMargins were set to the same values on startup). Scott -- what's the word? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
