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BvG:

Thanks. That works perfectly. Problem solved.

John

Klaus,

Thanks for taking a look at it. I know about the rectangles you mentioned but I didn't see much point in coding that if the printing wasn't going to work anyway.

John

The second line of the previously posted script is "choose line tool" so the drag commands draw the lines.

Here is the print script.

on mouseUp
hide button "Hide"
if visible of scrollbar "topscroll" then
put 1 into topflag
hide scrollbar "topscroll"
else
put 0 into topflag
end if
if ...

Here is the part of the script where the lines are drawn and text fields are positioned and their properties are set.

John

set visible of stack "lineage" to true
choose line tool
drag from horiz[0],vert[0][1] to horiz[1],vert[0][1]
create field
set width of last fld to w[0]
set height of ...

I could post it, but it's about 300 lines long. Do you want to see the whole script?

I am using a Mac and I hadn't tried that because the dictionary says it improves appearance for Windows. I just tried it anyway and it had no effect.

I've created a stack to keep track of my genealogy and recently scripted a button to create a family tree, drawing lines with the pen tool. It all shows up on the screen beautifully, but when I try to print, the lines sometimes appear, sometimes they don't, sometimes they appear only in a specific ...