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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Low level printing redux
Message-ID: <11106@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 17:21:58 GMT
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In article <55319@brunix.UUCP> omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
> For some reason, the low level print calls for bitmaps will refuse to 
print
> more than about 7 1/2" on a page horizontally.  
> 
> The QUESTION: Do you know how to 1) change the clipping region in the low
> level driver to be larger or 2) Using the low level calls, specify the 
> paper size which controls this clipping?

The low-level interface was designed to provide a minimal model of 
printing, so it uses a fixed clipping rectangle, chosen to make printing 
work on as many paper sizes as possible.

So the bad news is that 1) you can't change the clipping except by owning 
the source code, changing it, and recompiling, and 2) you can't set the 
paper size using the low-level interface.

The good news is you can just use the high-level interface instead.  It 
costs you very little to do so; the low-level interface is no longer the 
necessity that it once was (on 128K Macs) and is supported only to keep 
older applications working.

David Casseres
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