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Hi Bogs,

Yes it is the correct address :-) I can't put links in messages on here - maybe because I'm a newby.

Now I've got another problem - but I haven't looked on the forum yet to see if there's an answer. The pdf rendering is a bit odd and at the moment it's only in one field, which is a ...

Hello gentlemen,

Last night I cracked it with a good work round. See below.

on Mouseup
local tPrinter, tPath, tShell

-- first create the pdf in /tmp
put "/tmp/Livecode/tempfile" into tPath

open printing to pdf tPath
print this card
close printing

-- Now use os Print selector window to ...

Thanks for all your efforts gentlemen. I'll have a go at printing to pdf and then using lp to print that file. I've never run a shell command from within LC but you've given me enough clues to work that out.

My app uses two print routines, one to print receipts to a laser and the other labels to a ...

OK Bogs,

I have just downloaded 7 1 which is what I'm using on the Windows PC. It does print but it's a bit garbage and it's the same garbage when I print to pdf. The messages on the desktop indicate that it's not printing directly to the printer but to a printtempfile, which is then sent to the ...

Hi, I'm using Cinnamon, which seems to be the default.

I've been plugging away at this some more. It seems that once you have printed something to a file the printerOutput property stays as "print to file" no matter how many times you select a printer.

I've just tried setting the ...

I've got a little further with this. I've created a new card with a field and a button. The script for the button is :-

on Mouseup
answer printer -- Show printer selection window
answer printerName
answer printerOutput
open printing
print this card
close printing
end Mouseup

When I click on ...

Hi thanks for replying. Yes I can print to pdf, that's what the "print to file" option does. I can then print the pdf file outside of LC. On the windows version it works perfectly, and has for many years.
Dave

Hi, I wrote an application for personal use after I bought a copy of Runtime Revolution a long time ago. Since then I've migrated to the Live Code community version and have been running it on Windows 7 and then 10, it has been great. Decided recently that I would like to move away from Windows and ...