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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Page Rectangles
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Date: 10 Oct 90 17:06:10 GMT
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In article <52630@brunix.UUCP> omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
> You can print (on legal size) a larger area 
> from Excel than the Print Manager's page Rect (unless this has been
> changed in the new print drivers).  I was working on a legal size
> form,and discovered that, using quickdraw, I couldn't get the same area
> to print that Microsoft achieved with Excel.

I wasn't aware that you could do that, and I don't know how Microsoft does 
it.  Perhaps they have found a way to do it with embedded Postscript, and 
only on a Postscript LaserWriter?

> Please note that I am aware of the excesses indulged in over and above
> the compatibility guidelines by certain vendors.  However, it's difficult
> for us small developers to sit and watch somebody get away with adding
> a feature that you would love to have and only be told that "there is no
> way to do it."

Well, the correct message would be "there is no *supported* way to do it." 
Apple is certainly not alone in declining to support each and every hack 
that some developer has gotten away with on a particular version of the 
software and hardware.  Apple makes reasonable efforts to avoid bombing 
out useful features that are hacks, but it does not make unreasonable 
efforts and it does not make advance promises.  Consequently, such 
features have been known to stop working when a new Apple product comes 
out.  At that point, developers who have stayed within the guidelines are 
in a position to laugh loudly at those who have not.

David Casseres
     Exclaimer:  Hey!