Look at "revPrintField" in the Dictionary. If I recall, I think this can
be used with the open printing to pdf command
On 4/10/2019 12:46 PM, Robert J. Earp via use-livecode wrote:
Richard, many thanks for the thought. If you mean the built-in “printing to
pdf” then yes, but as far as I could see it only prints cards, not just field
content. Is there other pdf support ?
So, we’re having to mess around with creating a series of cards with a single
field on each with their rects set to US Letter size, copying the desired field
content into these and then printing to a pdf file. With the current project
where the field to print remains roughly the same character count it’s not a
biggy to get pagination right, but I was hoping to build a tool that could take
any size of field content with whatever tabs and output that automatically to a
.pdf of letter size that may be one or more pages.
I haven’t got into controlling fonts yet, meaning does the “printing to pdf”
use the font attributes that are displayed in the field on the card or ? My
simple test suggests yes.
best, Bob...
Subject: Re: Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its
formatting
Robert J. Earp wrote:
I?m not sure if the HTMLText solution will work for us as by default
the output file would open in a browser and we need to get it into
.pdf format to assemble (in Acrobat) with the other parts of the
report.
RogerG and I are currently mousing around creating a LC tool to output
a fields content to .pdf It?s looking promising and we?ll let you
know of our success or not !!
Would LC's built-in print to PDF support not be an option?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
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