print-dialog &key screen owner first-page last-page print-selection-p print-pages-p print-copies-p continuation => printer
The function
print-dialog
displays a print dialog and returns a printer object. The printer object returned will print multiple copies if requested by the user.
If
print-pages-p
is
t
, the user can select a range of pages to print. This should always be the case unless the application only produces single page output. If
print-pages
is
t
,
first-page
and
last-page
can be used to initialize the page range. For example, they could be set to be the first and last pages of the document.
The
print-copies-p
argument indicates whether the application handles production of multiple copies for drivers that do not support this function. Currently this should be
nil
if the application uses Page Sequential printing and
t
if the application uses Page on Demand printing.
If
print-selection-p
is
t
, the user is given the option of printing the current selection. Only specify this if the application has a notion of selection and selecting printing functionality is provided.
The dialog is displayed on the current screen unless screen specifies otherwise.
owner specifies an owner window for the dialog. See the "Prompting for Input" chapter in the CAPI User Guide for details.
If
continuation
is non-nil, then it must be a function with a lambda list that accepts one argument. The
continuation
function is called with the values that would normally be returned by
print-dialog
. On Cocoa, passing
continuation
causes the dialog to be made as a window-modal sheet and
print-dialog
returns immediately, leaving the dialog on the screen. The with-dialog-results macro provides a convenient way to create a
continuation
function.
Note that the printer object itself is opaque but programmatic setting of some printer options is available via the function set-printer-options.
CAPI Reference Manual - 15 Dec 2011