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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Another pinter question
Message-ID: <6442@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 19:22:51 GMT
References: <890329170226.20401ec5@elcc.epfl.ch>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <890329170226.20401ec5@elcc.epfl.ch> gay@elde.epfl.ch (David Gay) writes:
>Now that I know how to change the printer prefs (Thanks!), I have one more
>question:
>
>How can I work out the maximum size for a graphic dump ? If I send a DUMPRPORT
>request with SPECIAL_NOPRINT, SPECIAL_FULLCOLS and SPECIAL_FULLROWS, it sets
>io_DestCols & io_DestRows, but adjusts them so that the ratio of my RastPort is
>preserved. Is there any way round this ? If not, any easy way to work these
>out from the returned values ? (I want the margins, left offset, etc to be taken
>
>into account of course.)
>
	There are many ways to do what you want.  The simplest way is to
set io_DestCols and io_DestRows to some enormus value (like 5000).  The printer
device will chop these numbers down so that they fit on the paper.  Another
way would be to set these values explicitly in preferences (on the 2nd printer
graphic screen) under the Limits heading of Pixels.