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

"the result" returns exception info for the last command executed. In 
that case it's the "close printing" command.


Move it a line up and it'll tell you what's happening with the print 
command.


But add an error-check just after "open printing..." and I'll bet you'll 
find the culprit:


You path begins with "/", which signifies the root of the volume.  But 
"Desktop" is in the root, it's in the user's Home folder at (assuming Mac):


  /Users//Desktop/

Using specialFolderPath("Desktop") will always return the correct path 
on all platforms with a Desktop.


But in your case, you can do something even simpler:

  put "~/Desktop/test files/Test.pdf" into temp

The leading "~" is shorthand for the current user's folder.

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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 from (topleft of cd 1) to (bottomright of cd 1)

close printing

put the result

end mouseup
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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 !
> 


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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", "?"


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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 in text used for a number of 
things: 

function cleanASCII pString, pModeList, pCustomList
   /*
   pModeList is a comma delimited list that may contain the following values:
   "lowercase,uppercase,numbers,tabs,newlines,returns,spaces,symbols,custom"
   If custom is used, then a third paramaeter containing allowed characters 
must be supplied. 
   sample: put cleanASCII("This is a test!<>?", "uppercase,lowercase", "?"
   returns: "This is a test?"
   */
   if pModeList is empty then
  put " 0-9a-zA-Z" into tAllowedChars
   end if
   
   repeat for each item pMode in pModeList
  put word 1 of pMode into pMode
  
  switch
break
 case "tabs" is in pMode
put "\t" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "newlines" is in pMode
put "\n" before tAllowedChars
break
 case "returns" is in pMode
put "\r" before tAllowedChars -- currently not working
break
 case "spaces" is in pMode
put " " after tAllowedChars
break
 case "numbers" is in pMode
put "0-9" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "lowercase" is in pMode
put "a-z" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "uppercase" is in pMode
put "A-Z" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "symbols" is in pMode
put "!#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[\\_`{|}~^-" after tAllowedChars
break
 case pMode is "custom"
put pCustomList after tAllowedChars
break
  end switch
   end repeat
   
   put "[" & tAllowedChars & "]" into tMatchText
   
   repeat for each character  theChar in pString
  if matchtext(theChar, tMatchText) is true then
 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 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


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Re: Open Printing to PDF

2019-04-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
This may help to clean up all kinds of badness in text used for a number of 
things: 

function cleanASCII pString, pModeList, pCustomList
   /*
   pModeList is a comma delimited list that may contain the following values:
   "lowercase,uppercase,numbers,tabs,newlines,returns,spaces,symbols,custom"
   If custom is used, then a third paramaeter containing allowed characters 
must be supplied. 
   sample: put cleanASCII("This is a test!<>?", "uppercase,lowercase", "?"
   returns: "This is a test?"
   */
   if pModeList is empty then
  put " 0-9a-zA-Z" into tAllowedChars
   end if
   
   repeat for each item pMode in pModeList
  put word 1 of pMode into pMode
  
  switch
break
 case "tabs" is in pMode
put "\t" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "newlines" is in pMode
put "\n" before tAllowedChars
break
 case "returns" is in pMode
put "\r" before tAllowedChars -- currently not working
break
 case "spaces" is in pMode
put " " after tAllowedChars
break
 case "numbers" is in pMode
put "0-9" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "lowercase" is in pMode
put "a-z" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "uppercase" is in pMode
put "A-Z" after tAllowedChars
break
 case "symbols" is in pMode
put "!#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@[\\_`{|}~^-" after tAllowedChars
break
 case pMode is "custom"
put pCustomList after tAllowedChars
break
  end switch
   end repeat
   
   put "[" & tAllowedChars & "]" into tMatchText
   
   repeat for each character  theChar in pString
  if matchtext(theChar, tMatchText) is true then
 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 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


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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

-Original Message-
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
General 2018 via use-livecode
Sent: 23 April 2019 18:50
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: General 2018
Subject: Open Printing to PDF

Scott , Craig 

It would not save the pdf and the text was different for each stack.

The failing stack had ">" within the text , once removed the pdf saved !! 
cheers guys .

Is this a bug ?

Regards
Cam

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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.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, in the stack that does NOT work,
what happens if you:

  open printing to pdf "yourFilePathHere/xxx.pdf"
 revPrintText "Hello world" 
  close printing

This will eliminate any of the issues Scott mentioned, since you are using
simple text. But does a pdf appear on the desktop, and does it contain
"Hello World"?

Craig Newman



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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 printing

This will eliminate any of the issues Scott mentioned, since you are using
simple text. But does a pdf appear on the desktop, and does it contain
"Hello World"?

Craig Newman



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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 report number but I’m pretty confident 
that the problem exists 

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> On Apr 22, 2019, at 12:42 PM, General 2018 via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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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 "


Try testing a filename that has accented characters in it and see if that
triggers the error.

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Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode 
On 4/26/2018 5:22 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> 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?
>
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' dialog.

When I am typing fast (like in email posts) I get my ask and answers
transposed!


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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?


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Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode 
Yeah, error messages can be misleading sometimes. Often the command is simply 
returning a message the OS or API passed back to it, and that message can be 
less than helpful. For example, on copiers, when using StartTLS for encryption 
in SMTP communications, the server may reject the connection for a number of 
security reasons, but the error the copier always reports is "Login Failure" 
when in reality, the login information is correct. This can lead the uninitated 
down a rabbit hole if they try to change the password to what they think it 
might be. 

I was having fits getting a newly installed copier to scan to a customer's NAS 
file server. The error reported was "Login Failure". I verified credentials, 
did packet captures, sent them off to Konica, etc. Everyone was completely 
stumped. Turns out the top IT guy for the enterprise had decided to enable 
ACL's on the NAS devices, and he hadn't entered the MAC addresses for the new 
copiers yet. 

One other example: If Outlook attempts to connect to an Exchange server that is 
currently offline, it will present a login dialog. What percentage of end users 
do you think will STILL attempt to guess at their logins and passwords, even 
after telling them numerous times NOT TO GUESS. :-) So this is a problem with 
virtually everything that is going to interact with someone else's systems. 

Bob S


> On Apr 26, 2018, at 09:46 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> The file path is selected by the user through a standard 'answer file
> ... ' dialog. The code does not currently check to see if the folder the
> user selected for the file is writable, but tests of trying to save to a
> read-only (non writable) folder on Windows results 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 a TRY ... END TRY block to catch any error and present a graceful
> message of something like "exporting to PDF failed", but I was hoping
> someone (perhaps a LiveCode employee???) might actually know what the
> error message of 'printing: Unknown destination' meant.


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Re: Open printing to PDF error

2018-04-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode 
The file path is selected by the user through a standard 'answer file
... ' dialog. The code does not currently check to see if the folder the
user selected for the file is writable, but tests of trying to save to a
read-only (non writable) folder on Windows results 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 a TRY ... END TRY block to catch any error and present a graceful
message of something like "exporting to PDF failed", but I was hoping
someone (perhaps a LiveCode employee???) might actually know what the
error message of 'printing: Unknown destination' meant.


On 4/26/2018 11:01 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> 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 
>>  wrote:
>>
>> Just a guess, check the current default folder. It may have permissions set, 
>> or may no longer exist. 
>>
>> Bob S
>
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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 
>  wrote:
> 
> Just a guess, check the current default folder. It may have permissions set, 
> or may no longer exist. 
> 
> Bob S


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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 
>  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 "
> 
> This error (in fact NO ERRORs) are listed under the "open printing to
> PDF" entry in the dictionary. If 'the result is "cancel" ' is the only
> dictionary entry reference to an error code.
> 
> I assume this is some kind of permissions error? However, attempts to
> replicate (say by trying to save to a read only folder) have proven in
> effective. Does anyone know what this error is for real?


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