On Jul 8, 2019, at 6:43 PM, Cameron Ambrose wrote: > What about double-sided printing for Mac? I can manage that with PAGE SETUP > but I don’t see a Mac option under SET PRINT OPTION. Any ideas? I was in the > process of converting everything over to SET PRINT OPTION and now it looks > like I need to maintain both mechanisms since PAGE SETUP still appears to be > working fine on Mac.
SET PRINT OPTION supports double sided printing option. I know the docs say it is “Windows Only” but it work on macOS for me printing to an HP 451 laser printer using 4D v17.0 and macOS 10.13.6. Have you tried this option on your Mac? > Also a little annoying that paper names differ between OSs. I have to set > “Legal” on Windows and “US Legal” on Mac. Printing has always had it’s set of > challenges but this seems like more of a mess than it has been for a while. Paper names can be an issue cross platform. I settled on using the “Paper option” with 2 longint values for pixel width and pixel height. That works cross platform for me. So 8.5” x 11” would be (8.5*72) or 612 and (11*72) or 792. > Interesting that you’ve said you had to have a Windows form and a MacOS form. > I never have, but maybe that’s why the Windows side is failing now. It failed when trying to change from portrait to landscape. And on macOS you could set the scaling to like 75% and that would also not work on Windows if you save the print setting on macOS and they tried to use that with PAGE SETUP on windows. Getting printing to work cross platform can be a little voodoo sometimes. You have try different things to figure out what works and what doesn’t. I’ve spent many hours over the years trying different things on macOS and Windows to get report to print correctly as 4D has changed from v2 to v17. That’s a lot of versions and that’s not including all the Windows and macOS versions mixed in. Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
