While Revolution will not export an image of a card past the boundaries of
your screen, The old xworlds.com site has a solution. The "Export Card"
external will export an image of a visible or invisible stack past the
screenRect.
It looks like there are some other valuable externals in the collection
worth checking out at http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/
-Kelly
> From: Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:19:58 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: card size = window size?
>
> On 20/7/01 7:09 pm, Kelly Franznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've got a large group of graphics who's height and width exceed the
>> dimensions of the stack that they are contained within. I would like add a
>> feature to print them and/or export an image of them to a file.
>>
>> Here is the problem. It looks like the size of the window/stack and the size
>> of the card are always the same in Revolution. If this is true, can I not
>> print or export all of this larger group?
>>
>> For example, in SuperCard I can have a huge card that I can view through a
>> smaller scrolling window. You can both print and export the whole card.
>>
>> Please let me know if I'm missing something or if anyone can suggest a
>> workaround.
>
> Its actually fairly straightforward. Create an invisible stack and copy the
> objects into that. Set the rect of this stack to the rect of your paper.
> Set the formatForPrinting of the stack to true if you want to the prints to
> come out correctly using printer fonts on Windows platforms. Let me know if
> you need any help doing any of this!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.runrev.com/>
> Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer!
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