Printing rubbish

[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?

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Of course this:

on mouseUp
    set the printerOutput to "file: RubbishToo.pdf"
    print fld "fTEXT"
end mouseUp

just throws a "bluey"!

A bit of a shame, really, as printing from text-fields would
be ever-so nifty.

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I wonder whether this:

"Output direct to PDF
Cards or portions of cards can now be output direct to pdf format files."

means that one can do this in Supercard ????

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This:

on mouseUp
    set the printerOutput to "file: RubbishToo.pdf"
    print this card from 204,159 to 764,561
end mouseUp

proved interesting as it printed out most of the field (204,159 being 
the field's top-left
and 764,561 being its bottom-right), but chopped off its right side 
(presumably the
field is too wide).

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Of course, printing a scrolling field to PDF would have been a
non-starter as what is REALLY being printed is a SNAPSHOT of all
or part of the card.

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Tried this:

on mouseUp
    set the printerOutput to "file: RubbishToo.pdf"
    revPrintField ("field" && "fTEXT")
end mouseUp

and got a printer dialogue; and, interestingly enough, not the
standard Mac OS X one where there is the option to output to PDF.

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So, for now (at least) outputting a whole field to PDF on Mac looks
fairly hopeless.