Specifying the area to be printed

To specify the area of the session window that you want to print, you can either use the marking rectangle to gather the row and column coordinates, or else you can type the row and column coordinates of the text area into the Row and Column fields on the Extract action window.

If you are using the marking rectangle (see Using the marking rectangle) then the macro runtime writes the row and column coordinates of the upper left corner of the marking rectangle into the first pair of Row and Column values (labeled Top Corner on the Extract action window) and the row and column coordinates of the lower right corner into the second pair of Row and Column values (labeled Bottom Corner).

If you enter the Row and Column values yourself, then type the first set of row and column coordinates into the first pair of Row and Column values (labeled Top Corner on the Extract action window) and type the second set of coordinates into the second pair of Row and Column values (labeled Bottom Corner). You can use the text cursor on the session window as an aid to determine the coordinates that you want (see Using the session window's text cursor).

In the Row (Bottom Corner) input field you can enter -1 to signify the last row of the data area on the session window. This feature is helpful if your users work with session windows of different heights (such as 25, 43, 50) and you want to capture data down to the last row. Similarly for the Column (Bottom Corner) input field you can enter -1 to signify the last column of the data on the session window (see Significance of a negative value for a row or column).