Aaron Ballman's "Proper Printing" by Seth Willits 01-15-05 Printer Version

Here's a New One
Well, this isn't something I've ever done at ResExcellence before. Every week we try (and I do mean try) to present some length of a tutorial or article which will help novice and intermediate REALbasic users alike learn something new and (ideally) useful. Up until now we've done this on ResExcellence with a tutorial written either by myself, or our former writer, Erick Tejkowski. Today however, I'm actually going to refer you to read a great tutorial on another site. Rather than simply linking to it in a news blurb, I would rather point it out here and make a point of it (pardon the redundancy) instead of letting it get lost in the shuffle and having no link or dedicated page for it.

Proper Printing
Aaron Ballman is an engineer at REAL Software, and an extremely friendly and helpful one at that. Aaron's own website has been starting to fill up with awesome developer code and articles and his latest tutorial, "Proper Printing", is no exception. Printing is a topic that a countless number of developers have questions about, even myself. Speaking from experience, it seems to be a complex task and even I didn't know how it all worked. Having read "Proper Printing" almost anyone should come off knowing more than when they started, and most certainly should be able to put what's in the article and the sample project to use.

The sample project, which properly handled everything I threw at it, is filled with more comments than it is code. And that's a good thing. The comments are just as helpful as the article itself and step by step explain everything needed to get printing working well.