Cocoa® Programming

Chapter 25. Printing

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Basic Printing

• Overview of the Printing Classes

• NSView’s Printing Support

• Printing and Pagination Example

• Printing in NSDocument-Based Applications

This chapter explores the classes encountered when adding printing support to Cocoa applications. The Cocoa framework classes automatically provide basic printing features. There is a standard File, Print menu item included by default in Cocoa application user interfaces designed with Interface Builder. The menu item sends the -print: message up the responder chain. Cocoa views and windows in the responder chain respond to the –print: message to automate printing. This chapter explains how to modify and extend the default printing capabilities. The NSPrintInfo,