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From: gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Printing card field
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Date: 13 Sep 90 17:03:51 GMT
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While I know of no easy way to do this in standard (pre 2.0)
Hypercard, the Dartmouth XCMD's version 3.1 have two VERY good
XCMDs for printing card fields.

PrintField (by Kevin Calhoun)  prints the text of a field in its current
     font, size, style, height and width. Further information about
     page margins and whether to invoke the standard print dialogs can
     also be specified (margins on this XCMD are in points).

TextStream (also by Kevin Calhoun) prints groups of containers (variables,
     fields, scripts, etc.) in the printer's default font. It has a
     provision to set margins (but unlike PrintField these margins
     are in terms of characters and lines). There is no way to force
     the dialog boxes to appear.

Both XCMD's work on the Laserwriter and Imagewriter.
The Dartmouth XCMD's verison 3.1 stack is available via
anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu as freeware.

Does anyone know whether these XCMDs work with Hypercard 2.0

William Moss