Cocoa® Programming

Overview of the Printing Classes

Cocoa supports printing with the NSPrintInfo, NSPageLayout, NSPrintPanel, and NSPrintOperation classes. Each class controls a different aspect of printing and of the resulting output.

NSPrintInfo

The NSPrintInfo class encapsulates information used to control printing. It provides methods to access the dimensions of the user’s selected paper size, the type of pagination to use, whether the output should be centered horizontally or vertically on the page, and the orientation of the paper. It also provides information about the selected printer and the current print job status. NSPrintInfo instances store a dictionary containing detailed information about printing options.

Creating an NSPrintInfo Instance

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