Re: Printing - taking advantage of full page size?

FROM : David Duncan
DATE : Tue Jan 29 19:34:00 2008

On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Jim Correia wrote:

> It looks like the pagination methods on NSView solve the opposite 
> problem that I'd like to solve here. I don't want to paginate my 
> view, but expand it to take up a full page when the on screen 
> dimensions are smaller than one page.
>
> In this situation, what is the best way to solve the problem? Simply 
> create and configure another view for printing which displays the 
> same content?



The pagination methods are still the best way to do this. You would 
simply state that your content has exactly 1 page that fills the size 
of the paper. Then when your -drawRect is invoked, it will be invoked 
to draw within the bounds of the page size you specified previously.
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David Duncan
Apple DTS Animation and Printing
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