Print to PDF: Right side of text is truncated

[richmond62]

You can do this:

and get this:

which is a bit SILLY because LiveCode doesn't work out the pagination.

[richmond62]

Effectively useless:

[ittarter]

Wow, that is unpleasant to even look at.

[jacque]

Did you set up the printing parameters? It looks like you need to at least set the printmargins.

[ittarter]

Did you set up the printing parameters? It looks like you need to at least set the printmargins.

That wouldn't work for my situation because I'm using revPrintText, not revPrintField.

Anyway, I think I figured out the cause of the truncating, which seems to be avoided if I set the textsize of the field to what I want, instead of messing around with the htmltext of the field.

[FourthWorld]

Anyway, I think I figured out the cause of the truncating, which seems to be avoided if I set the textsize of the field to what I want, instead of messing around with the htmltext of the field.

Sounds like a bug to me. You might consider reporting that:
http://quality.livecode.com/

[jacque]

RevPrintText applies the parameters of a field you specify, but I think it still prints using the printer and LC default page printing properties. In other words, control of the page settings is still tied to the printer and LC defaults. The default margins in LC are 1-inch per edge. If you set the printmargins to something else, revPrintText should respect those.

It's been a long time since I used revPrintText but I don't think it's a bug, I think it's a result of not setting the printer defaults before applying the revPrintText command. If setting printmargins doesn't work, then it's a bug.