MeadCo's MaxiPT

MeadCo's MaxiPT provides printing capabilities that are significantly more flexible and powerful than Internet Explorer's standard offering. Check these samples and their sources to see how to script the template:

Licensing MaxiPT

From version 6,1,431,2 of ScriptX and later, the licensing of the two Feature Sets of MaxiPT is controlled on the publishing license issued to you by MeadCo:

  <PERMISSION PRINTING="true" MAXIPTCORE="true" MAXIPTEXTENDED="true">
  </PERMISSION>

Deployment

The print template's resources are now installed client-side in a DLL and - from version 6,5,439,72 of ScriptX and later - called from there by a parameter on the ScriptX object:

<!-- MeadCo Security Manager -->
<object id="secmgr" style="display:none"
  classid="clsid:5445be81-b796-11d2-b931-002018654e2e"
  codebase="[your path here]/smsx.cab#Version=6,5,439,72">
  <param name="GUID" value="{0ADB2135-6917-470B-B615-330DB4AE3701}">
  <param name="Path" value="[your path here]/sxlic.mlf">
  <param name="Revision" value="0">
</object>

<!-- MeadCo ScriptX -->
<object id="factory" style="display:none"
  classid="clsid:1663ed61-23eb-11d2-b92f-008048fdd814">
  <param name="template" value="MeadCo://maxipt"/>
</object>

MaxiPT functionality

MaxiPT incorporates these additional properties:

Multiline HTML header and footer:

document.printingRules.allPagesHeader = "<div align=center> <h1> MeadCo's MaxiPT </h1> <br>"+
"Header for &p page <br> time: &T </div>";

Header and footer first page different:

document.printingRules.firstPageFooter = "<div align=right> <h3> MeadCo's MaxiPT </h3> <br>"+
"Footer for page &p of &P </div>";

Additional footer for the first page:

document.printingRules.extraFirstPageFooter = "<font color="#0000FF"> Total pages: <b>&P</b> - "+
"<i>Technical Data Sheets</i><font>";

Height of header and footer:

document.printingRules.allHeaderHeight = 120; // points
document.printingRules.extraFirstFooterHeight = 60;

Page Range. Sets the page selection to print :

document.printingRules.pageRange = "1,3-5,7,9-11";

Printing Range. Sets the page selection to print :
```
document.printingRules.printingPass= "even";
```
Mirror Margins. Changes left and right margins to inner and outer margins for double-side printing:
```
document.printingRules.mirrorMargins = true;
```
Optimal Layout of the document. The document will be re-paginated if the content height on the last page is less than 1 inch:
```
document.printingRules.optimalPageLayout = true;
```
Optimal Layout of the document. The document will be re-paginated if the content height on the last page is less then the specified value in inches:
```
document.printingRules.limitContentLastPage = 2.5; // inches
```
Optimal Layout method (see above). The pages can be adjusted from the top, bottom or both ends during the optimization:
```
document.printingRules.optimalPageLayoutDirection = "Equally"; // "Top", "Botton", "Equally"
```
Preview Active Frame. Specify to preview the active frame (if any) instead of the main document:
```
document.printingRules.useActiveFrame = true;
```
Scale to fit the Page. The page will be previewed or printed with the optimal scale automatically calculated from the page dimensions:
```
document.printingRules.pageWidth  = 1280; // points
document.printingRules.pageHeight = 1024;
```
Scale method. The page will be previewed or printed with the following scale:
```
document.printingRules.pageZoom = "50%";
```