Printing problem

[David Squance]

>>On 2/25/04 3:31 PM, David Squance wrote:
>>
>>> One of the two problems is that Rev is freezing every time I attempt to
>>> print a card.  I downloaded a fresh copy of RR2.1.2 and it made no
>>> difference.  I can only assume that it is something I've done.  It started
>>> with my current project--a very simple one card stack.  I'm trying to print
>>> the content of a couple dozen fields in a sort of contrived array with a
>>> simple "print this card" statement in a button.  The various buttons, etc
>>> are masked and the showborder for each field is set to false first. It all
>>> appears to work as expected, and prints, but shortly after the cursor quits
>>> flashing and the colour wheel starts spinning.  Help!
>>
>>What do you mean when you say the buttons are "masked"? I've hit a
>>problem in the past where overlaying a field and an image caused print
>>problems. Are you placing something over the buttons? What happens if
>>you just hide the buttons instead?
>>
>>I'm assuming from the "colour wheel" reference that you are running OS
>>X, right?
>
>Yes. OS 10.3.2.  I'll try the 'hide' route.  I was just being lazy, having
>no idea that that could cause a problem.  I've always used 'hide' before,
>but because of the card layout, it seemed much simpler just to create a
>dummy button that covered everything I didn't want to print.
>Thanks for the suggestion.
>Dave

Well, I remembered a short while ago seeing in the docs that an area of a
card can be specified for printing, eg 0,0 to 500,300 (or the mouseloc, in
their example).  So I dumped the mask button and tried that.  No joy.  Any
more suggestions gratefully received.
Dave