Re: App not printing

2022-11-28 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Marty, I had a similar issue. The only way to resolve the issue was to add the printing entitlements. Apps uploaded to the Mac App Store must have the sandbox environment enabled, and for every functionality that needs to communicate with the "outside world" it needs the a

App not printing

2022-11-28 Thread Marty Knapp via use-livecode
I have an app built with LC 9.6.7 (I believe) and this morning my tech support is flooded with people who are unable to print and some reporting error 1002 on Mac but the there are some Windows users reporting they cannot print either. Anybody else seeing this? --- Marty Knapp

Re: Printing (Preview in LC/screen vs Printer/PDF)

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
A correction. The images are reduced to 1/4 size ONLY when printing to PDF on Windows (printing to paper results in the image at expected size) This could be specific to Windows and the PDF "printer" (Foxit) being used. More testing is required. Premature posting ;-) On 10/23/20

Printing (Preview in LC/screen vs Printer/PDF)

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I know this topic has been covered previously, probably many many times, but my search skills are failing me. We have a "printing stack" in our app that, among other things, provides a "Print Preview" view. This takes the printer margins, page size, orientation, etc

Re: Printing Woes

2022-10-13 Thread panagiotis m via use-livecode
Hello Dan, Hmm interesting. I am wondering if it is a permissions issue / sandbox violation. How did you distribute this standalone? Was it via the AppStore? I am wondering if you had to sign it with the printing entitlement (com.apple.security.print) Also, it might be worth checking the System

Re: Printing Woes

2022-10-13 Thread panagiotis m via use-livecode
Hello Dan, Thanks. You can open the Console app (/Applications/Utilities/Console), choose the current Mac in the Devices section (at the left) and filter the logs based on the standalone app id. The logs are showing in real time, so in your standalone app trigger a "answer page setup" command and

Re: Printing Woes

2022-10-13 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Panos, The common denominator seems to be a Macbook Air. One client said: "We are using on Macintosh computers (2021 Macbook Air and Mac Studio desktops) and are seeing that the Page Setup and Print buttons do not seem to do anything." Another: "I am getting more inquiries about teachers

Re: Printing Woes

2022-10-13 Thread panagiotis m via use-livecode
Hello Dan, What is the MacOS version of the computers where "answer page setup" fails? Do they have anything else in common? Does the Console app show anything suspicious? Kind regards, Panos On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 at 01:41, Dan Friedman via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >

Printing Woes

2022-10-12 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
I am getting several reports of clients that can't print from my Mac app built with 9.6.8. When we call "answer page setup", nothing happens (and the result is empty). It doesn’t happen on all computers... some work and some don’t. Anyone have any thoughts, insights or ideas? -Dan

Re: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
a blank page in the beginning of my PDF. I have checked that I'm not printing a blank page and have debugged this to death! Any thoughts on a blank page being included in a PDF? -Dan On 10/4/22, 11:44 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Waddingham via use-livecode" wrote: On

Re: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
on getting the 'real' font data for the given font (which it does not in this case) and not macOS (CoreGraphics-based) printing. The latter appears to be able to deal with the 'magic' fonts (unsurprising as its all Apple stuff), but our pdf printer cannot. If you set the stack to an explicit

Re: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Marty Knapp via use-livecode
>Evergreen Information Services >rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > >-Original Message- >From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf >Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode >Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2022 11:21 AM >To

RE: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Ralph DiMola Subject: Re: PDF Printing Thank you for your thoughts, but do you really think a font cache is the issue? I have two computers in my office having this issue, and about a dozen Macs at my client's location -- that we know of so far! If it were a font issue

Re: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
eninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2022 11:21 AM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Subject: PDF Printing I am getting different res

RE: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
] On Behalf Of Dan Friedman via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2022 11:21 AM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Subject: PDF Printing I am getting different results using "open printing to pdf" vs standard printing to a printer. I have a card with a single field on it

Re: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Marty Knapp via use-livecode
. It’s little harder to fix on Windows - if that is the case you might Google that. Worth a try anyway. Marty > On Oct 4, 2022, at 8:20 AM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode > wrote: > > I am getting different results using "open printing to pdf" vs standard > printi

PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
I am getting different results using "open printing to pdf" vs standard printing to a printer. I have a card with a single field on it with some formatted text in it. If I print the card to a printer using "open printing with dialog" it all looks perfect (even if I choo

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-15 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
. They can find the print icon, that's about it. AS the proud possessor of a 90 year old Mum I can confirm this. Op 12-3-2021 om 01:20 schreef 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

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

2021-03-14 Thread JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode
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?? Uh… okay here you go.” Bob S On Mar 11

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

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 BackgroundColor of text

2021-03-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
hakan wrote: > Looks like a bug to me, and on top of that the HTML should be updated > IMHO as the -tag is officially deprecated in HTML 5. The relationship between HTML and HtmlText is very much like the relationship between Java and JavaScript. Which is to say, aside from sharing four

Re: Printing BackgroundColor of text

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Thanks Håkan... I already reported it. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> From: ha...@exformedia.se Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2021 9:02:16 AM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Subject: Re: Printing BackgroundColor of text Looks like a bug

Re: Printing BackgroundColor of text

2021-03-07 Thread Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode
Looks like a bug to me, and on top of that the HTML should be updated IMHO as the -tag is officially deprecated in HTML 5. But, that’s another story. When I try I get the same error! So, I guess it is a bug that should be reported- :-Håkan On 4 Mar 2021, 21:06 +0100, How to use LiveCode ,

Printing BackgroundColor of text

2021-03-04 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
I seem to be having an issue printing text with a backgroundColor. Anyone else have this experience? SIMPLE to reproduce: Make a stack and put a field in it. Set the htmlText of the field to this: Color: 0233 Deep Marsh Now, run this either in a button or in the multiline message

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
this thread. Op 17-1-2021 om 19:09 schreef 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

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

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

Re: Printing a com.livecode.widget.browser

2020-12-10 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
Hi Terry, Can you use lockscreen? Greetings William Op do 10 dec. 2020 om 10:15 schreef Terence Heaford via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > Clearly you can’t print a card that contains a browser widget as livecode > is unable to do this. > > I don’t understand why

Printing a com.livecode.widget.browser

2020-12-10 Thread Terence Heaford via use-livecode
Clearly you can’t print a card that contains a browser widget as livecode is unable to do this. I don’t understand why because Safari can and I believe they are both based on webkit. Anyway I have come up with a semi acceptable workflow that involves. 1. Exporting a screenshot of the screen

Re: Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

2020-12-04 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
livecode < > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > >> That’s a possibility. Interesting. I’ll give it a go when I’m more > awake. > >> Thanks Richard > >> > >> Sean Cole > >> Pi Digital > >> > >> > >> &g

Re: Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

2020-12-04 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
code < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Sean Cole wrote: >> I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No >> matter which font or style I use I get occasional anomalies where >> characters from words get placed over each other like a kerning

Re: Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

2020-12-04 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
t; use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Sean Cole wrote: > >> I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No > >> matter which font or style I use I get occasional anomalies where > >> characters from words get placed over eac

Re: Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

2020-12-03 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
That’s a possibility. Interesting. I’ll give it a go when I’m more awake. Thanks Richard Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 4 Dec 2020, at 06:16, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Sean Cole wrote: >> I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs.

Re: Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

2020-12-03 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No matter which font or style I use I get occasional anomalies where characters from words get placed over each other like a kerning issue gone mental. Bad rendering: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v09vacw8x3873qh

Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

2020-12-03 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Hi all, I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No matter which font or style I use I get occasional anomalies where characters from words get placed over each other like a kerning issue gone mental. Bad rendering: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v09vacw8x3873qh/Screenshot

Re: Big Sur hangs when printing

2020-10-14 Thread Marty Knapp via use-livecode
UPDATE: Apple just released BigSur public beta 10 today and it’s back to printing OK for me here. So the issue was apparently with Apple. Anybody want to check on your end to confirm? Marty > On Oct 14, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Marty Knapp wrote: > > This BigSur printing bug happens when

Re: Big Sur hangs when printing

2020-10-14 Thread Marty Knapp via use-livecode
This BigSur printing bug happens when you "open printing with dialog” and has been confirmed by Panos. Drop the “with dialog” and you can print. I don’t know at this point if the issue is with LC or with Apple. In the event that it doesn’t get fixed by the time BigSur is released, I

Big Sur hangs when printing

2020-10-08 Thread Marty Knapp via use-livecode
guess the Big Sure release is going to be here very soon. I have a mission critical app with printing as an absolute necessity. Try it for yourself - create a stack in the LC IDE and then try to print the card. The print dialog never appears and it will hang. I was able to successfully print from

Re: Open printing to pdf

2020-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
GEORGE WOOD wrote: > Here is on example of what I tried: > > on mouseup > put “⁩/Desktop⁩/test files/Test.pdf” into temp > open printing to pdf temp > print cd 1 from (topleft of cd 1) to (bottomright of cd 1) > close printing > put the result > end mouseup &qu

Re: Open printing to pdf

2020-05-12 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
What happens if you remove the space from the file path? Does it still behave the same? Phil Davis On 5/12/20 4:23 PM, GEORGE WOOD via use-livecode wrote: Here is on example of what I tried: on mouseup put “⁩/Desktop⁩/test files/Test.pdf” into temp open printing to pdf temp print cd 1

Open printing to pdf

2020-05-12 Thread GEORGE WOOD via use-livecode
Here is on example of what I tried: on mouseup put “⁩/Desktop⁩/test files/Test.pdf” into temp open printing to pdf temp print cd 1 from (topleft of cd 1) to (bottomright of cd 1) close printing put the result end mouseup ___ use-livecode mailing

Printing issue on Windows confirmed, reported

2019-11-05 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Thanks to a new forum user who provided a handy sample stack, I was able to pin down a recipe for making a very common form of printing on Windows completely unusable: Setting the vGrid or hGrid properties of a field cause the field to be rendered into the print buffer with the entire content

Re: Windows, Underlines and Printing

2019-11-03 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
e tomorrow. Craig -Original Message- From: Dan Friedman via use-livecode To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Sent: Sat, Nov 2, 2019 1:04 pm Subject: Windows, Underlines and Printing Greeting! I have a field on a stack. In

Re: Windows, Underlines and Printing

2019-11-03 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
Hi.  I don't suppose you have tested on a Mac? If not, I will when I get to my office tomorrow.  Craig -Original Message- From: Dan Friedman via use-livecode To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Dan Friedman Sent: Sat, Nov 2, 2019 1:04 pm Subject: Windows, Underlines and Printing Greeting

Windows, Underlines and Printing

2019-11-02 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Greeting! I have a field on a stack. In that field is some text and one word is underlined. If I print the card on a windows computer, the underline isn't printed. If I print the card to PDF, the underline is printed. I tried LC 9.0.4 Indy, 9.5.0 Business and 9.5.1 rc1 Business. Can

Re: Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

2019-10-23 Thread Terry Judd via use-livecode
Hi Craig - nah, just tried and doesn't work in my situation. I'm creating multipage PDFs which requires the use of "print break" between each card, and if I don't "close printing" between reports the PDFs are corrupted (I suspect only one page of each reports gets printe

Re: Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

2019-10-23 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
Terry. Do this. Should be instantaneous: on mouseUprepeat with y = 1 to 5put yourPathName && y into jobPathopen printing  to pdf (jobPath & ".pdf")print this cardend repeatclose printingend mouseUp You should get five PDF's in a flash. Craig -Original Message- Fr

Re: Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

2019-10-23 Thread Terry Judd via use-livecode
Hi Craig - yes, I open and close printing for each report. I might be wrong (I’ve been using variations of the same printing routine for ages) but I seem to recall that I was unable to successfully or reliably create separate reports unless I closed printing after each one. Terry... Sent from

Re: Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

2019-10-23 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
Hi. Are you repeatedly using "open printing to PDF"? Craig -Original Message- From: Terry Judd via use-livecode To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc: Terry Judd Sent: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 9:11 pm Subject: Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop I'm printing a whole bun

Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

2019-10-22 Thread Terry Judd via use-livecode
I'm printing a whole bunch of PDFs (multipage feedback reports generated by populating a series of cards with individualised data - mix of text and graphics) and it starts off fast and then inevitably slows down - a lot. While it might start off printing say 14 reports per minute after a few

making outputted pdf background transparent [ was:high resolution when printing to pdf, ...]

2019-09-10 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
I’ve managed to make overlay of pdfs work with PyPDF2. Now I have the problem that livecode outputs a background color to the pdfs I make. Even if I et the background color of my card, the groups, etc. to empty, I still get a grey background, instead of a transparency. This means that when I

Re: high resolution when printing to pdf, either from images or pdf widgets

2019-09-07 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
>>> I'm not entirely clear what Monte meant by 'print to pdf directly' in one >>> of those comments... The 'print to pdf' mechanism in the engine isn't >>> really any different from the normal printing mechanism, its just that >>> rather than funnel the sequen

Re: high resolution when printing to pdf, either from images or pdf widgets

2019-09-07 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
to pdf' mechanism in the engine isn't really any different from the normal printing mechanism, its just that rather than funnel the sequence of paths, images, text being rendered through the system printer it funnels it through libcairo's (https://cairographics.org/) PDF output functionality. Can

Re: high resolution when printing to pdf, either from images or pdf widgets

2019-09-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
On Aug 28, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: > > On 2019-08-27 17:24, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: >> I’ve seen references, even in the bug report, to “directly” printing >> to pdf from a widget. > > I'm not entirely clear what Mont

Re: high resolution when printing to pdf, either from images or pdf widgets

2019-08-28 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 28 Aug 2019, at 5:07 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > I'm not entirely clear what Monte meant by 'print to pdf directly' in one > of those comments.. Ah I was talking about printing the PDF file directly. May have been before I realised there needed to

Re: high resolution when printing to pdf, either from images or pdf widgets

2019-08-28 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2019-08-27 17:24, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: I’ve seen references, even in the bug report, to “directly” printing to pdf from a widget. I'm not entirely clear what Monte meant by 'print to pdf directly' in one of those comments... The 'print to pdf' mechanism in the engine isn't

high resolution when printing to pdf, either from images or pdf widgets

2019-08-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
I’ve seen references, even in the bug report, to “directly” printing to pdf from a widget. My experience has been that it still reduces the pdf to screen resolution. I still insist they the fact that the engine *renders* the pdf, rather than including it, is a hard-core bug. I attached

Printing to pdf and printing to paper on Android

2019-06-10 Thread JJS via use-livecode
Hi, concerning printing on mobile and then i mean Android, to pdf or paper is not supported? (as far as i know) Why? At least every Android(as of Android 6) i had, had printing services. So probably it is time to update Printing to pdf and Printer Library and maybe other dependencies

Re: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Not all my doing. Got help from a number of people on this list who I am too senile to recall now. ;-) Bob S > On Apr 23, 2019, at 11:35 , General 2018 via use-livecode > wrote: > > Very nice ! > ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
That should read: sample: put cleanASCII("This is a test!<>?", "uppercase,lowercase,custom", "?" > On Apr 23, 2019, at 11:24 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > sample: put cleanASCII("This is a test!<>?", "uppercase,lowercase", "?" ___

RE: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread General 2018 via use-livecode
Very nice ! -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode Sent: 23 April 2019 19:24 To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Bob Sneidar Subject: Re: Open Printing to PDF This may help to clean up all kinds of badness

Re: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
put theChar after cleanString end if end repeat return cleanString end cleanASCII > On Apr 23, 2019, at 11:00 , General 2018 via use-livecode > wrote: > > Not a bug - my fault !! > > The part of the heading text for the pdf is used for the saved filename

RE: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread General 2018 via use-livecode
Not a bug - my fault !! The part of the heading text for the pdf is used for the saved filename which cannot be ">" ! of course ... The issue was the file save naming not open printing to pdf command , your replies made me look for odd characters. Regards Cam -Ori

Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread General 2018 via use-livecode
ts.runrev.com] On Behalf Of dunbarxx via use-livecode Sent: 23 April 2019 13:56 To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Cc: dunbarxx Subject: Re: Open Printing to PDF Hi. Are you saying the "open printing to pdf" command itself does not work, or that you get blank output? In other words,

Re: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread dunbarxx via use-livecode
Hi. Are you saying the "open printing to pdf" command itself does not work, or that you get blank output? In other words, in the stack that does NOT work, what happens if you: open printing to pdf "yourFilePathHere/xxx.pdf" revPrintText "Hello world" close

Re: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-22 Thread Scott Morrow via use-livecode
Hello Camm, Are they all printing the same text? If I recall correctly, Open Printing to PDF is where the fail occurs when certain Unicode characters are encountered. Emojis are one example where characters will render in a field but not print to a PDF. Hmmm... I wasn’t able to turn up a bug

Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-22 Thread General 2018 via use-livecode
Hi , I have 3 separate stacks each containing the same code for printing to pdf. One of those stacks will not open printing to pdf in dev or runtime. The other 2 work fine - Head scratching ?? All items are in the same path / folder. Regards Camm

Printing Crashes in LC 9

2018-11-20 Thread Knapp Martin via use-livecode
Anybody besides me having occasional crashes while printing in LC 9? I don't have a recipe but it happens every once in a while in both LC 9.0.1 and LC 9.0.2 rc1. In the IDE and in a standalone (Mac). I have filed bug report 21473 (first reported in August) and have added crash reports from

Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-27 Thread Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:36 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I have a user who ran into the error "printing: Unknown destination: > (Line 0, column 0)" when executing a line in my code that was "Open > printing to PDF "

Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
case... you really meant > 'answer folder' there, right? > Actually, I meant 'ask file ...' to prompt the user for a standard *save* file dialog to get the file path for the 'open printing to pdf tFile' And by folder exists, I mean the containing folder in the path returned by the 'ask file'

Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 04/26/2018 09:46 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Presumably the folder exists since it was just selected by the user via the 'answer file' command. I assume that was just a typo, but just in case... you really meant 'answer folder' there, right? -- Mark Wieder

Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
in a controlled error > dialog being presented by the 'open printing to pdf' statement rather > than an code execution error. > > Presumably the folder exists since it was just selected by the user via > the 'answer file' command. Obviously, I can wrap this part of the code > in

Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
being presented by the 'open printing to pdf' statement rather than an code execution error. Presumably the folder exists since it was just selected by the user via the 'answer file' command. Obviously, I can wrap this part of the code in a TRY ... END TRY block to catch any error and present

Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
NVM you provide a file path. You may want to check that the folder exists before writing the pdf. Do you ask the end user where they want to put the file first, or do you assume a destination folder? Bob S > On Apr 26, 2018, at 07:57 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Just a guess, check the current default folder. It may have permissions set, or may no longer exist. Bob S > On Apr 26, 2018, at 06:36 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I have a user who ran into the error "printing: Unknown

Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a user who ran into the error "printing: Unknown destination:  (Line 0, column 0)" when executing a line in my code that was "Open printing to PDF " This error (in fact NO ERRORs) are listed under the "open printing to PDF" entry in the dictionary. If 'the re

Re: OSX printing of images issue

2018-03-29 Thread Mark Talluto via use-livecode
I will ask one of my co-workers to get in contact with you tomorrow. She writes printing code all the time. Best regards, Mark Talluto livecloud.io <http://livecloud.io/> nursenotes.net <http://nursenotes.net/> canelasoftware.com <http://www.canelasoftware.com/> > On M

Re: OSX printing of images issue

2018-03-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
print card", I copy this card to stack "savePrinting". And after the repeat loop, I save the savePrinting stack to the desktop and delete it. Now with this debug code in place, printing under OSX work fine. It is as it the command 'copy this card to stack "savePrinting" ' forc

Re: OSX printing of images issue

2018-03-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
s list suggests either very few people are printing images or at > least very few are have ever run into this issue. > > Some images print fine and some do not and I can not find anything > consistent about the images themselves to suggest why one would be fine > and one would not.

Re: OSX printing of images issue

2018-03-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Marty, I also hope there is an answer, but the lack of responses to my post on this list suggests either very few people are printing images or at least very few are have ever run into this issue. Some images print fine and some do not and I can not find anything consistent about the images

Re: OSX printing of images issue

2018-03-28 Thread Knapp Martin via use-livecode
I’m curious to know what you find. I’m about to embark on updating 2 apps from LC 6.6.5 to the latest in order to get ready for Apple requiring 64 bit. Both apps are heavily printing oriented, so I hope there is an answer here. --- Marty > On Mar 28, 2018, at 8:28 AM, Paul Dupuis via

OSX printing of images issue

2018-03-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a print subsystem for my application that prints a particular set of data by laying our the page (sizing the card to the paper, allowing for margins, etc, where the content area of the page is a single image object. The resizeQuality is set to "best" and alwaysBuffer is true When I print

Re: Printing HTML Text

2017-12-07 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
"xyz" is of course the stack with the card you want to print ... before printing? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Printing HTML Text

2017-12-07 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
; Thank you in advance, > -Dan did you: ... set the formatForPrinting of stack "xyz" to TRUE ## where "xyz" is of course the stack with the card you want to print ... before printing? Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de ___

Printing HTML Text

2017-12-07 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Hello! I have some formatted text in a field. If I print it on a Mac, it’s perfect. If I print it on a windows computer (Win 7 or 10), I get VERY strange results. I have tried multiple computers with multiple printers. All with the same results. I get these large black bars. And on some

Printing a Browser widget

2017-11-27 Thread Terence Heaford via use-livecode
Has there been any progress with the Browser Widget being incorporated into print card? If not is there a timescale for this? Thanks Terry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Printing A Browser

2017-11-25 Thread hlowe via use-livecode
I also use HTML to create and display complex tables with LC (in iOS) and have been looking for a way to (a) save the tables as PDF files and then print the tables (as a PDF). There is a library for creating PDF files from HTML created by Brent Nycum called BNHtmlPdfKit:

Printing A Browser

2017-11-25 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
find any information about printing properties (like printMargins or orientation for example). Am I missing something? Or is printing from a LiveCode browser a “you get what you get (and just be happy you got what you got)” kind of thing? Thank you in advance, -Dan

AW: regression bug: corrupt filename at open printing to pdf

2017-11-10 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
Auftrag von Mark Waddingham via use-livecode Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. November 2017 17:21 An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Cc: Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> Betreff: Re: regression bug: corrupt filename at open printing to pdf On 2017-11-09 11:01, Tiemo Hol

Re: regression bug: corrupt filename at open printing to pdf

2017-11-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-11-09 11:01, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote: Hello, LC 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on Windows: I create PDFs with "open printing to pdf myFile.pdf". That works fine as far the filename doesn't contains Umlaute. If the filename contains Umlaute 2 PDF files are created (ye

regression bug: corrupt filename at open printing to pdf

2017-11-09 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
Hello, LC 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on Windows: I create PDFs with "open printing to pdf myFile.pdf". That works fine as far the filename doesn't contains Umlaute. If the filename contains Umlaute 2 PDF files are created (yes 2 files!). The first file has the correct filename with Umlaute

Re: How do I specify the papersize name for printing?

2017-08-07 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
That is an interesting question. Working with copiers, I know that the paper "name" (= size) have to match a built-in "name" in order for the printer to auto-print, otherwise the print job gets redirected to the bypass (manual feed) tray and held until a user hits the Go button. Sone drivers

AW: How do I specify the papersize name for printing?

2017-08-07 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
st 2017 12:38 An: LiveCode User Liste senden <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Cc: Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolb...@kestner.de> Betreff: How do I specify the papersize name for printing? Hello, how do I specify the paper name / the standard drawer of the printer? Right now I set the prin

How do I specify the papersize name for printing?

2017-08-07 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
Hello, how do I specify the paper name / the standard drawer of the printer? Right now I set the printpapersize to "595,842", which is "A4", but the printer stops with asking for a "user defined" paper. How can I tell the printer, that my print job is not a user defined paper, but just the

Fwd: Printing a Widget Browser

2017-06-30 Thread Terence Heaford via use-livecode
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Terence Heaford <t.heaf...@icloud.com> > Subject: Re: Printing a Widget Browser > Date: 30 June 2017 at 19:21:14 BST > To: jonathandly...@gmail.com > > >> On 29 Jun 2017, at 20:37, jonathandly...@gmail.com wrote: >&

Fwd: Printing a Widget Browser

2017-06-30 Thread Terence Heaford via use-livecode
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Terence Heaford <t.heaf...@icloud.com> > Subject: Re: Printing a Widget Browser > Date: 30 June 2017 at 19:19:38 BST > To: jonathandly...@gmail.com > > >> On 29 Jun 2017, at 20:50, jonathandly...@gmail.com wrote: >>

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