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Message        harvey          Post subject: Printing under linuxPosted: Tue 
Mar 08, 2011 6:19 am                         
Joined: Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:21 am
Posts: 15                First: I'm new to RB so don't shoot me if I oversee 
something obvious 

I'm in the process of porting my first app from Superbase to Realbasic. All was 
going well until it came to printing...

 I'm on 64bit ArchLinux (multilib installed) with KDE 4.6 as Destop Environment 
and REALStudio 2010r5.1. There seem to be some 'oddnesses'. I designed a Report 
according to the examples and tried to print it. 

My local laser (Brother MFC9420CN) won't print at all, but that seems to be a 
buggy driver which won't work from gnome apps. Had the same thing with 
openoffice some time ago. While they seemed to have worked around it by now, RB 
obviously has not. 

So I tried my virtual pdf printer installed in CUPS. The Report prints. But it 
seems to print at very low dpi and therefore looks very ugly. I tried to set 
maxHorizontalResolution and MaxVerticalResolution to 300, even 600 but it seems 
to be completely ignored.

As far as I understand there have been some some bugs in the linux printing 
area. The docs even say that some things don't exist in linux. That seems to be 
outdated by now as I can display the PrinterSetup.
http://docs.realsoftware.com/index.php/PrinterSetup

But I need some hints. How do you linux guys manage your printouts? 

Harvey      
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