Printing Causes Rev & Standalone to Crash

Sarah Reichelt sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Mon Jun 27 19:33:58 EDT 2005


> I'm printing a large number of cards (100-150 cards, each landscape  
> A4) using something like:
>
>    open printing with dialog
>     repeat with x = 1 to cardsToPrint
>       print card x
>     end repeat
>    close printing
>
> However, it gets to the last card and then crashes both Rev and  
> also any standalone I've built doing the same thing.  I've tried  
> both Rev 2.5.1 and Rev 6 (under Mac OS X 10.3.9) and get the same  
> result. I've tried a Print Preview and a Print to PDF and both  
> crash out of Rev/standalone!  If I do Print Preview, I get nothing  
> after the crash.  If I do Print to PDF, I get an incomplete damaged  
> PDF file.
>

A few weeks ago, someone reported crashes when printing large numbers  
of cards/pages. Can you split your print job into smaller batches?  
Also, make sure that you aren't trying to print a card that doesn't  
exist.

Cheers,
Sarah





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