[newbie] Printing

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sat Sep 9 07:19:32 UTC 2000


>From the Browser one can print out methods as html, if that helps. Just
copy the text in and print...

Karl

Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> Printing in Squeak isn't fleshed out very well.  There is a method to
> print a form, if you have one, but I don't know how many platforms
> actually support it.
> 
> You can save any morph to a postscript file using the red halo's "print
> to PS file..." option.  So an option would be to open a file in Scamper,
> and then save the textmorph in Scamper's window to a postscript file.
> 
> There's nothing in Squeak that will paginate a long HTML file for
> printing.  So you'll run into trouble if you try to print something that
> is longer than a page.
> 
> Anyway, the bottom line is that it's not at all easy in Squeak to
> generate good postscript from HTML, much less actually print out
> formatted HTML.  You might reconsider whether you really need to do
> this.
> 
> -Lex
> 
> Charles Hixson <charleshixsn at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > How would one go about printing an html file?  I can
> > restrict it to HTML1.1, since I'm going to be the
> > creator.  What I don't know how to do is how to
> > print it.  Or if there's some better way.  I know
> > that postscript emitters exist somewhere.  But I
> > don't know how to get started.
> >





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