Printing just one card to PDF [was Re: The owner of a selected control - a mystery]

[Graham Samuel]

Wow! It worked!  I did not get an extra page, and so I got what I wanted. 

At first sight, I couldn't see the functional difference between my code and yours., then I realised that you set the printMargins BEFORE your ‘open printing’ statement, and I’d set them afterwards. I suppose to the engine this is somehow logical. I will see if a clarifications needs to go into the LC Dictionary.

Thanks - wonderful!

Graham 

PS This was using LC 7.0.2 rc-2 on a Mac with Yosemite 10.10.2


> On 24 Feb 2015, at 01:29, Paul Hibbert <paul at livecode.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:00 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I am trying to understand how to generate a PDF which has exactly the same dimensions as the object which is being ‘printed’
> 
> 
> Try this…
> 
>     set the printMargins to 0,0,0,0
>     set the printPaperSize to the width of this card,the height of this card
>     open printing to pdf specialFolderPath("Documents") & "/mytest.pdf" -- or Wherever
>     print this card
>     close printing
> 
> It works for me in LC5.5.5 to LC7.0.2(rc2).
> 
> Paul
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