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Change print output by changing window size Apps
I just found out that you can adjust the zoom while printing in TextEdit by changing the window size (at least for .txt files). For example, if you make your window big, the resulting printed page will have really small text, allowing more on the page (ideally to have the print out look like the current on screen display).

[Editor's note: This exact same thing also happens in Mail.app, but those are the only two Cocoa apps I tested it in. It seems wrong to me that a document with a fixed size font will vary its output size based on the size of the display window. After all, it's still a 12 point Verdana, even if the page is now drawn larger. Can anyone explain why this is either the expected or correct behavior??]
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WYSIWYG
Authored by: MattHaffner on Sep 25, '02 10:33:43AM

I haven't tried this, but if the resulting word-wrapping is exactly the same on the screen and on the page, then this may be a new interpretation of 'what you see is what you get'. It's debatable whether that's a good idea or not.

For me, what I want most of the time from printing e-mail and web pages is a pretty high-density of content per page with no chance of straggler pages with a line or two of text (man I HATE those :). I'll have to play with this to see if it allows better control than adjusting a font size.



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WYSIWYG
Authored by: cpatch on Sep 25, '02 01:32:27PM

This should be optional...the way I want to see text on the screen is different than the way I want to see it on the page.



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It IS optional!
Authored by: Jon on Sep 26, '02 01:19:17PM

In the Format menu in Text Edit you can toggle between "Adjust text to page" and "Adjust page to window" (or something like that - I'm translating from my Swedish system). That solves it all, doesn't it?



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It might be a "developer" feature.
Authored by: Maxwell on Sep 26, '02 06:06:46PM

For those of you who have done a little bit of Cocoa, the explanation might be here (i'm not certain at all, my cocoa lesson are already forgotten ;).

I think it is due do the fact that it is not the text file which is printed, and that those application do not have a real printing behaviour but instead they just send the "window" to printing (the right developer term would be the "view").
If you create a new app in cocoa, you can, without implementing any printing code, print the content of the main window, so this might be the same kind of behaviour...

If a real cocoa developer could react on this, we would know it for sure.



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