Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-15 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
I'd like to address your comments bit-by-bit, so firgive me for interleaving them in your post. On 14.03.21 22:16, JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode wrote: I understand, for me no issue. But for a novice, or an elderly someone with very minor knowledge about computers that is already an obstacle.

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-14 Thread JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode
I understand, for me no issue. But for a novice, or an elderly someone with very minor knowledge about computers that is already an obstacle. They can find the print icon, that's about it. Op 12-3-2021 om 01:20 schreef Bob Sneidar via use-livecode: As a print device specialist, I can tell you

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-11 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
As a print device specialist, I can tell you that printing directly from a web browser, be it a PDF or a web page or anything, is problematic. It is ALWAYS better to produce a PDF then print from a real PDF product. Web browsers give you printing as an afterthought. “Oh you want to print too??

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-11 Thread JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode
Not just LC. If you try to print a Gmail message in Firefox on Ubuntu Mate, then it creates also a pdf which is not getting printed. Doing the same in chrome and it prints correct. Printing from Firefox to pdf, then open the pdf in the standard pdf reader, it prints also correct. This was

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-11 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: > On 1/16/21 10:30 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > >> This report for Linux Mint seems perhaps relevant: >> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21131 > > In my comment #13 on that bug report I suggest a workaround. Is that a > possible way forward for

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-08 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 1/16/21 10:30 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: This report for Linux Mint seems perhaps relevant: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21131 In my comment #13 on that bug report I suggest a workaround. Is that a possible way forward for you? -- Mark Wieder

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-01-18 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 1/16/21 10:30 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Any of you able to print from LC in Linux? You seem surprised that Yet Another Feature is broken on linux. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-01-17 Thread JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode
Off Topic: I have a triple boot and Ubuntu is just booting so fast, within 2 seconds i'm on the log-in. Win10 Boots faster than BigSur, but BigSur shuts down faster, Win10 is a pain in the butt when shutting down. Ubuntu is the fastest booting and shutting down. Sorry for hijacking this

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-01-17 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I don’t use Linux, but the way things are going with Apple, I may consider it. Bob S On Jan 16, 2021, at 10:30 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: I've been printing almost exclusively to PDF for the last several years, but this morning I wanted

Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-01-16 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I've been printing almost exclusively to PDF for the last several years, but this morning I wanted to print to actual paper, and found that LC doesn't print from Ubuntu. There's nothing in the result after the print command, so LC thinks it's doing fine. And I can print from any other app