Chapter 24. Printing
Code to handle printing is always relatively hard to write. There are many factors at play: pagination, margins, and page orientation (landscape versus portrait). This chapter is designed to get you started on your journey toward the perfect printout.
Compared to most operating systems, Mac OS X makes writing print routines considerably easier. After all, your views already know how to generate PDF, and Mac OS X knows how to print PDF. If you have a document-based application and a view that knows how to draw itself, you just implement printShowingPrintPanel:. In this method, you create an NSPrintOperation object and run it. The code would look like this:
- (void)printShowingPrintPanel:(BOOL)flag { NSPrintInfo *printInfo = ...Get COCOA PROGRAMMING FOR MAC OS X SECOND EDITION now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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