Re: Set Print Option clarity needed

2017-06-30 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
This is also a confounding issue if you even tried to use "printing" on 4D server to create PDFs. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Keith Goebel via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > Sounds like I have just been incredibly lucky so far that print settings > have not been messed up by a

Re: Set Print Option clarity needed

2017-06-29 Thread Keith Goebel via 4D_Tech
Thanks for your reply. Sounds like I have just been incredibly lucky so far that print settings have not been messed up by a second process. I like to do the print settings at the start of a long print job so the user can start it and forget it - rather than have it stop when finally ready to

Re: Set Print Option clarity needed

2017-06-29 Thread Keisuke Miyako via 4D_Tech
printing has always been a global operation. after all, it is the application that is doing printing, not the process. so if you OPEN PRINTING JOB in a process and hold (TRACE for example; just close the progress window on Mac) then call SET PRINT OPTION in a different process, you get the

Set Print Option clarity needed

2017-06-29 Thread Keith Goebel via 4D_Tech
Hi all. In the v16 Conversion doc, I noticed the following instruction. I see it was the same from at least 4D v13, and it has caused me no problems so far, but I'd like to make sure there are no problems in the future... The SET PRINT OPTION command is used to modify, by programming, the value