Re: Printing an NSDocument
Re: Printing an NSDocument
- Subject: Re: Printing an NSDocument
- From: Brian Postow <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:26:57 -0400
On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:26 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
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> On Mar 18, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Jenny M wrote:
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>> Sorry, no answer, I'm just having a similar issue. I need to print
>> columns of text, and all the examples I see indicate a manual creation
>> and placement of EACH line of text in an NSRect inside the view. ...
>> Is there really no better way to place objects in the view?
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> if the columns of text match line for line, why not use two NSTextViews side by side? You’ll still likely need to handle pagination, but you don’t have to draw each one.
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> A WebKit view may also be another option.
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Actually, I think that a PDFView may be the way to go for me. I can turn the representations into NSImages, the NSImages into PDFPages, put the PDFPages together into a PDFDocument, throw the PDFDocument into a PDFView, and then print the PDFView. At least there's no fiddling around with rectangles...
Brian Postow
Senior Software Engineer
Acordex Imaging Systems
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