Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The Vermont Recipes, Second Edition

Recipe 9. Add Printing Support

Highlights

Adding support for printing to a document-based application

Modifying the standard settings displayed in the Print panel

Creating a custom print accessory view

Creating an accessory view controller

Creating a singleton object using a factory method

Using NSObject’s +initialize method

Setting initial print settings in the user defaults database

Setting changed print settings in the user defaults database

Creating a print view

Printing headers and footers

Scaling the printout

Unlike Recipe 8, which covered many disparate topics, this recipe has a single focus: printing.

Cocoa printing underwent profound changes in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, both in the API and in the user interface. The primary Cocoa printing ...