Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:26:02 EST From: John Dowdell <71333.42@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Re: An Easy Question...Steve Varley asks on Nov 13 for a way to print a letter-sized page from a screen-sized Stage.
One trick I've used in the past has been to have a 612x792 Stage on a MIAW which is referenced and opened but never displayed. (Use "set myPrintWindow to window 'print.dir'" or some such innocuous reference... just don't use the "open window" command or "set the visible of myPrintWindow to TRUE" or such; keep it invisible.)
This MIAW can retrieve data from the Stage movie via normal "tell" commands and can then be issued a "printFrom" command. Even though the 8.5x11 window is never imaged to the screen, it can still send a full page to the printer.
Note that this is an exceptional handling... I've used it successfully in limited testing, but I have not tested it on all platforms in both authoring and runtime environments. I *have* heard from one developer that they found a problem in a particular combination of platform and environment, so this may very well be a non-universal trick.
Still, I hope your testing may be able to get some use out of this approach of using a MIAW for something other than screen display.