Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/29/09 11:33 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Hi Richmond, Printing in rev can be a bit confusing at times, but I have some experience with it so I can help you find the errors in your ways ;-) Let's start at the top. In order to print a card to a PDF file, you have to do a little more than what

Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Further to what I wrote recently; XPS is supposedly an open format, but it really is one of those Microsoft 'things' and reading an XPS document on a Macintosh is dependent on non-Free software: Sana Tech: http://www.sana-tech.com/xps.html XPS Convert:

Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) --- On Sat, 11/28/09, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: From: Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com Subject: Printing rubbish To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, November 28

Printing rubbish

2009-11-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have a card containing a field that is 875 wide (on a Mac), so when I do this: on mouseUp set the printerOutput to file: Rubbish.pdf print this card end mouseUp I get rubbish insofar as i get the left half of the card in a PDF file; wonder what happened to the right half?

Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-28 Thread BNig
. Mind you field 1 is a scrolling field with about 1 page worth of text of which only the 5 first lines are visible on the card. Everything is in the pdf. This is on MacOSX 10.5.8, Rev 4.0.0 regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Printing-rubbish-tp906910p914056.html

Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 11/28/09 7:29 PM, BNig wrote: Richmond, if I put this into a button on mouseUp revprintfield (Field 1) end mouseUp it starts a little dialog that looks unfamiliar but if I OK it then I get the usual printer dialog. If I then choose preview as output I get a PDF in preview. And I can

Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-28 Thread William de Smet
Hi Richmond, I tried this before and found the following script in one of my files: --- *put* fld name into tName *put* tName into url (file:specialFolderPath(Desktop)/test.pdf) --- This generates a PDF file on the desktop (OSX) and gets a Preview Icon. But when opening the file it gives

Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-28 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi There, See if this can help (mac os x and linux platforms only - just sticked out of one of my 24/7 rev apps witch take an html block as input and convert/save it as pdf) : put HTML_output into url (file: HTML_to_save_path) get shell(/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f

Re: Printing rubbish

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Alcibiades
there are lots of other ways. Peter -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Printing-rubbish-tp906910p930652.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution