The owner of a selected control - a mystery

[J. Landman Gay]

The printPaperSize reports the physical size of the sheet of paper. You 
generally don't need to mess with that. Either restart LC to get rid of 
the setting, or use resetPrinting from the message box to put everything 
back to defaults. Remove that line of code. If your stack is smaller 
than the size of the default PDF "paper," the handler was probably 
making it too small to hold the content.

If the problem is the other way (the default paper size isn't large 
enough) then setting the printPaperSize is okay because you need more 
room. In that case what you've got should work if you add some extra 
space for the printer driver limitations.

You're right about those, and you need to take those into account too. 
Most printers can't print within a half inch of the top of the paper. If 
you also have a top margin of, say, half an inch, then there's a full 
inch at the top before the printing starts. Setting the topMargin to 0 
will still cause the top of the printout to start at the half inch 
required by the printer driver. If the content of your stack is not 
located at the very top of the card, then add that amount to the top gap 
as well.

I usually create a separate printing substack that moves data into 
carefully placed fields that are located at the very edges of the card. 
That makes it easier to calculate where the printout will start. I know 
that setting the margins to, say, 18, will add a quarter inch to the 
printer's required margins and that's where the content will begin to 
print. If I use a printmargin of 0 it will put the content right up 
against the default limit of the print driver.

Finally, if none of this works, then use the "print into rect" syntax. 
LC will scale the printout to fit into the rectangle you specify.

On 2/22/2015 4:41 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> Not quite sure I understand this (I did once, but i’ve got rusty - oil can!). I assumed that the following code would exactly fill a page:
>
>     set the printCardBorders to true
>     set the printPaperSize to (the width of this card) & "," & (the height of this card)
>     set the printMargins to "0,0,0,0"
>     print this card
>
> But maybe you're saying that there is some hidden factor here. One thing I can think of in a physical bit of paper (which a PDF isn't, really) is that only certain printers can print to the very edge, so there might be a kind of hidden margin (is this "the available print area"?). I am not sure if the printPaperRect comes into this: as far as I can see, it shouldn't, since the printMargins are measured from the edge of the page according to the LC Dictionary. The printing might be cropped if edge-to-edge isn't available, but that should not increase the number of pages printed, should it?
>
> I will experiment some more.
>
> Graham
>
>
>> On 21 Feb 2015, at 21:14, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/21/2015 10:11 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>> 1. When you print to a pdf file, you often get a blank page. I have
>>> not yet found that the solution offered (putting a ‘print break’ into
>>> the script) works for me.
>>
>> If the bounds of the printout overrun the available print area, LC will push the content down to another page. It sounds like you may have margins at either the top or bottom of the page that are too large to accomodate the height of the printout.
>>
>> You can set the margins to a smaller number, or use the "print into rect" syntax to scale the output to fit. Remember when dealing with margins that the margins represent the amount of space around the rect of the card itself. If your fields or other controls are not at the very edges of the card, then they will be inset more than just the margin amounts.
>>
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