Re: [StrongED] Text printing with headers - problems with page length

[Fred Graute <fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx>]

In message <6c0db90d51.ewen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Ewen Pring <Ewen.Pring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

> It's even worse in some cases when Printers is set to print a page
> header; the page height is increased instead of being decreased. This
> results in too many lines to be sent to the printer causing lines to
> spill onto the next page.
>
> If this happens reduce the page height in the Print dialogue box
> before starting to print."
>
> The second paragraph sounds to me like a bug in !Printers, but I'm not
> sure where to go from here. I wonder; is this something I could log as
> a bug on the ROOL tracker, which might then be fixed?

It's been a while since I looked at this, but IIRC the problem only
occured with some printers. So, it may be caused by Printers or by
some of the printer drivers.

> StrongED 4.68 (26 Apr 2009) in use.
>
> Always defaults back to page size in chars as taken from system
> variable PDriver$TextPage. This is width = 77 height = 66 for the lj
> type printer driver I use.
>
> But only height = 64 works properly (avoids blank extra pages or the
> wrong page number being shown at the wrong place in the page).

The system variable PDriver$TextPage calculates the height based on
the size of the paper and the margins set. Unfortunately it doesn't
take into account that there are fewer lines available for the actual
text if it's configured to print a title.

As far as I can see there's no way to determine if the "Print title"
option in Printers is set so it's not possible for StrongED to adjust
the page height accordingly.

> Cannot set a default in StrongED for the height.

The reason you cannot set a default in StrongED is there's only one
setting yet users may have more than one printer installed. The set
height would apply to all printers which could be annoying if the
active printer is changed.

> 'Print headers and footers' ticked in print dialogue.
>
> !printers is set to "print title"

Perhaps it is best to turn off the "Print title" option in Printers.
The text it prints could be added to the header printed by StrongED.
That way you'd still have the printout you want but without having to
mess about with the page height.

Cheers,

Fred.

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