Re: Print to PDF output dodgy on Windows

[Terry Judd via use-livecode]

Thanks again Mark – it’s all printing nicely now without having to close and 
open the target stack.

Regards,

Terry...

 
On 4/09/2017 5:47 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Waddingham via 
use-livecode"  wrote:

On 2017-09-04 09:20, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
> Thanks Mark - I wasn't aware of that setting. I'll try setting it to
> true before I print each report and see what happens. Based on the
> dictionary entry it sounds like I'll need to set it back to false
> again before my script updates all the report's various templates, and
> perhaps even close and reopen the stack before turning it back on and
> printing the next report?

The dictionary entry might need an update. Since we added 'fullscreen 
mode', I think the engine is a lot better at 'resetting things' when you 
toggle formatForPrinting on and off.

The 'formatForPrinting' changes the way fonts are handled on Windows to 
ensure that screen-specific hints and metric changes don't occur - 
'fullscreen mode' uses it implicitly internally on Windows too 
(otherwise fonts don't necessarily linearly scale with size, something 
which is quite important for printing!) so you should find you can just 
toggle it on and off.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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Re: Print to PDF output dodgy on Windows

[Mark Waddingham via use-livecode]

On 2017-09-04 09:20, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:

Thanks Mark - I wasn't aware of that setting. I'll try setting it to
true before I print each report and see what happens. Based on the
dictionary entry it sounds like I'll need to set it back to false
again before my script updates all the report's various templates, and
perhaps even close and reopen the stack before turning it back on and
printing the next report?


The dictionary entry might need an update. Since we added 'fullscreen 
mode', I think the engine is a lot better at 'resetting things' when you 
toggle formatForPrinting on and off.


The 'formatForPrinting' changes the way fonts are handled on Windows to 
ensure that screen-specific hints and metric changes don't occur - 
'fullscreen mode' uses it implicitly internally on Windows too 
(otherwise fonts don't necessarily linearly scale with size, something 
which is quite important for printing!) so you should find you can just 
toggle it on and off.


Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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Re: Print to PDF output dodgy on Windows

[Terry Judd via use-livecode]

Thanks Mark - I wasn't aware of that setting. I'll try setting it to true 
before I print each report and see what happens. Based on the dictionary entry 
it sounds like I'll need to set it back to false again before my script updates 
all the report's various templates, and perhaps even close and reopen the stack 
before turning it back on and printing the next report?

Terry...

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> On 4 Sep 2017, at 4:20 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-09-04 06:43, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
>> Before I bug report this, has anyone else had problems printing styled
>> text to PDF on Windows? I’ve been printing multipage reports (lots of
>> formatting, graphics etc) to PDF using LC on a Mac for ages without
>> any problems (well, not this particular problem at least). However,
>> when I try to do the same on Windows it screws up the text formatting
>> if any of the text within a field to be printed includes bolded or
>> italicised words, introducing adjacent non-existent spaces or (equally
>> bad) rending the styled text so that it overlaps the non-styled text
>> on either side of it. I’ve tried changing the font at the stack and
>> field level, thinking that might help but to no avail. If an entire
>> line or field has a style associated with it then there is no problem.
>> It’s only when styles are mixed within a field.
> 
> Do you have 'the formatForPrinting' of the stack set to true?
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
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Re: Print to PDF output dodgy on Windows

[Mark Waddingham via use-livecode]

On 2017-09-04 06:43, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:

Before I bug report this, has anyone else had problems printing styled
text to PDF on Windows? I’ve been printing multipage reports (lots of
formatting, graphics etc) to PDF using LC on a Mac for ages without
any problems (well, not this particular problem at least). However,
when I try to do the same on Windows it screws up the text formatting
if any of the text within a field to be printed includes bolded or
italicised words, introducing adjacent non-existent spaces or (equally
bad) rending the styled text so that it overlaps the non-styled text
on either side of it. I’ve tried changing the font at the stack and
field level, thinking that might help but to no avail. If an entire
line or field has a style associated with it then there is no problem.
It’s only when styles are mixed within a field.


Do you have 'the formatForPrinting' of the stack set to true?

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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Print to PDF output dodgy on Windows

[Terry Judd via use-livecode]

Before I bug report this, has anyone else had problems printing styled text to 
PDF on Windows? I’ve been printing multipage reports (lots of formatting, 
graphics etc) to PDF using LC on a Mac for ages without any problems (well, not 
this particular problem at least). However, when I try to do the same on 
Windows it screws up the text formatting if any of the text within a field to 
be printed includes bolded or italicised words, introducing adjacent 
non-existent spaces or (equally bad) rending the styled text so that it 
overlaps the non-styled text on either side of it. I’ve tried changing the font 
at the stack and field level, thinking that might help but to no avail. If an 
entire line or field has a style associated with it then there is no problem. 
It’s only when styles are mixed within a field.

Terry...
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