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From: evan@txsil.lonestar.org (Evan Antworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Problem printing labels with HC 2
Message-ID: <383@txsil.lonestar.org>
Date: 27 Nov 90 15:55:56 GMT
Reply-To: evan@txsil.lonestar.org (Evan Antworth)
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics (Dallas, TX)
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In article <381@txsil.lonestar.org> evan@txsil.lonestar.org (Evan 
Antworth) writes:
>> When I try to adjust the label width, it jumps in increments that
>> are too large, missing the precise size I want. Am I missing something
>> obvious (or not so obvious)?

In article <1134@goofy.Apple.COM> gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm) 
replies:
> You're missing something that isn't obvious: holding down the command key 
> while dragging or resizing on the mini-page in the report dialog will 
> change the measurements by 1/32 inch at a time, as opposed to actually 
> tracking the mouse on the mini page.

>You may also want to check the "Larger print area" checkbox in the 
>LaserWriter options dialog (given that you're printing to a LW of course).

Thanks, both these tips helped greatly. I succeeded in getting the labels
to print correctly, though not exactly as one might expect. I still
couldn't simply make the labels on the mini-page the actual size they are
on the label sheets. Printing on a LaserWriter, the smallest I could make
the left and right margins was 0.218" (inches). The labels are 2.625" wide
with 0.125" space between the columns (three columns, ten rows). However,
setting size and spacing on the mini-page to these numbers overflows the
right margin. So I set the size to 2.5" and space to 0.25" and the columns
are spaced perfectly.

--Evan