Director MX 2004: How to keep the text layout with printomatic

Question

Hi,
I' using printomatic 1.7.3.0 and when I print the content of
a text
member, all the parameters of the text disappear (bold,
size..).
Is there a way to avoid this ?
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Hi JB,
Thanks for your anwser. Your second strategy sounds good,
but how should
I proceed to mulitply the height of my text member (x2 ou
x4). I tried the
following:
member(x).width = member(x).width*2
member(x).height = member(x).height*2
... but as you know, it only works for the width.
Thank you again for your help !
"JB" <[email protected]> a �crit dans le
message de news:
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> As I recall the simple printomatic printMember command
uses the image of
> a text member, which should be preserving the styling,
using the
> member().text extracts unformatted text, but does allow
printomatic to
> print at full printer resolution, unlike a text member
bitmap image.
>
> 2 Strategies:
>
>
> Create a text parcer that reads the font, style, size of
individual
> words in the text memer, converting the info to
printomatic
> layout/formating form.
>
> Have an off stage scaled up version of the text member,
whose image is
> sent to printomatic, the xtra crunches pixels together
when images are
> scaled down on page, so feeding it a 2x or 4x size text
member image
> make the effective print resolution 150 or 300 dpi.
> THe easiest case is where all the text is the same point
size, a
> standardize prepareForPrint routine should be able to
create a copy of
> the member, scale up the font size and the width of the
member rect so
> the appearance of the line wrap points is preserved,