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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Saving and Printing Two Cards
Message-ID: <39171@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 90 11:17:33 GMT
References: <10558@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <10558@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:
>Here's a slightly strange question.  I have a stack which needs to have
>save and print functionality added.  The images of two cards, or the
>cards themselves, are what is to be saved or printed.
>
>Obviously, it's no problem to save the image of one card, or to copy
>two cards and paste them into a new stack.  But a user-friendly way
>of printing two cards doesn't seem to exist.  I want them always to
>be printed two to a page, one above the other, without the user having
>to give any magic incantations in the middle of the process.

Here's what you do for printing:
  on mouseUp
    open printing      -- start saving up for a print job
    print card "first card to print"
    print card "second card to print"
    close printing     -- print the job
  end mouseUp

This prints the two cards on the same page, one above the other. The print
job respects the settings in the Print Stack dialog. If you want the user to
have access to the dialog, use "open printing with dialog" instead of
"open printing".
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