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Date:	Wed, 7 Jul 2004 05:50:34 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Rexx printing control ?

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
> >Basically I just need to squeeze a variety of reports onto sheets of
> >paper. Most of this stuff is OS/2 Radio studio tracking and I'm tired of
> >setting the margins differently for every report. I'd rather just send
> >the reports through a little program that determines the widest line and
> >then sets the margins accordingly. When the lines are "too wide" I just
> >kern the letters closer together. I suppose PostScript would be easier
> >but I never learned it.
>
> Perhaps, although it appears you might not be using the best tool for this
> job. If the data is columnar, I would just drop it into a spreadsheet and
> let it work out the line wrapping. Of course, I'd have to see your input
> data to know if this really makes any sense.

I considered using Mesa 2 which has a "Scaling -> Fit to page" option,
but I don't see any way to fully automate that choice. It needs
somebody to explicitly tell it "Fit to page"; I can't send it some
parameter that says "print this report centered, print this report as
fit to page and landscape, print this report with the following heading
on each page, print this report with the following preface above the
headings on the first page only".

Also, Mesa 2 doesn't give me line spacing options. Some of these
printed pages need enough space for me to write in update info while I'm
in the studio. EPM gives me 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2 etc line spacing but I
can't find anything like that in Mesa 2.

- Peter

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