I print to PDF all the time, and I cannot imagine that the contents of the page being printed has anything to do with the act of making the PDF.
I understand that was not particularly helpful. Craig > On Jul 22, 2026, at 8:19 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Sadly, I have no Douglas Adams anecdotes, other than the joy of reading his > books and listening in my bedsit to the first Hitchhikers broadcast in 1978. > > However, I do have a good old fashioned LiveCode question... > > I have a card featuring closely packed label fields (arial) and other > controls. The only ‘product’ of the app was for some time capturing a PNG to > the clipboard. Then a user requested a save to PDF feature. I thought this > would be quick and easy, only to discover that the PDF rendered had many > missing words in the label fields. The text missing looks pretty random, not > just cropped at left or right of the field. It is also consistent, so same > words missing on each execution, and weirdly also only whole words, as far as > I can see. > > The code I have previously had success with on a card with very similarly > tightly packed controls is > > put the defaultfolder into toldfold > > set the cursor to busy > > set the defaultfolder to it > > set the printPaperOrientation to "landscape" > > put the printPaperRectangle into trect > > set the cursor to busy > > put the "TSI Scores " & the long date & ".pdf" into tfilename > > open printing to pdf tfilename > > if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseup > > print card 1 into 8,8,830,540 > > print break > > print card 2 into 8,8,830,540 > > close printing -- send group of cards to printer > > set the defaultfolder to toldfold > > > > The only difference I can see is that the problem only arises with respect to > the card containing label fields. The above works fine with very tightly > packed buttons with labels. > > In the end, to get it done in time for a meeting, I kludged a temporary page > containing a snapshot of the card and printed to PDF from that. Not really > what I wanted. I will probably have some time to wrestle with this next > month - so is there another solution to the problem, or am I just expecting > too much of the print to PDF rendering process? > > Cheers > > David G > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
