[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Print scale

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From: Yoshiyuki Hasegawa <hase44@...>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:54:00 +0900
Thank you Brian.

It was possible to scale it very easily.

Yoshiyuki

On 2006/10/18, at 5:31, Brian Stevens wrote:

>
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa wrote:
>
>> n OSX, how about the setting of the percentage of the scale when  
>> printing on paper?
>
> The PMSetScale and PMGetScale are your friends here. If you start  
> down this road be prepared to use other printer manager calls such  
> as PMGet (and Set)Orientation and others. FB verbs make some of  
> these calls for you, so it is possible to mix both FB calls and PM  
> calls.  Details about the PM calls can be found in the Carbon  
> Printing Manager documentation in Xcode. The toolbox fns are  
> defined in Tlbx Printing.incl and their use is relatively simple.   
> This is not a working example but here is a code snippet.  
> gFBPageFormat is the global FB uses when setting up the PM session.
>
> dim as UInt16 @theScale
> dim as OSStatus err
>
> err = fn PMGetScale ( gFBPageFormat,@theScale)
> theScale = 70            //70% scaling
> err = fn PMSetScale ( gFBPageFormat,theScale)
>
> HTH---Brian S.
>
> =========================
> PMSetScale
> Sets the scaling factor for the page and paper rectangles.
>
>
>
> OSStatus PMSetScale (
>    PMPageFormat pageFormat,
>    double scale
> );
>
>
> Parameters
>
> pageFormat
> A page format object. To create a page format object you can call  
> the function PMCreatePageFormat and then call the function  
> PMSessionDefaultPageFormat to initialize the page format object to  
> default values.
>
> scale
> The desired scaling factor expressed as a percentage. For example,  
> for 50 percent scaling, pass a value of 50; for no scaling, pass 100.
>
> Return Value
>
> A result code. See “Carbon Printing Manager Result Codes”.
>
> Discussion
>
> You can call the function PMSetScale to change the scaling factor  
> that appears when your application invokes the Page Setup dialog.
>
> If your application needs to call PMSetScale after it has called  
> PMSessionPageSetupDialog, make sure you call  
> PMSessionValidatePageFormat before you call PMSessionBeginDocument.
>
> If you call the function PMSetScale after your application calls  
> PMSessionBeginDocument for the print job, the changes are ignored  
> for the current print job.
>
> Availability
>
> Available in Mac OS X v10.0 and later.
>
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