HELP with: open printing for pdf...

[Monte Goulding]

Hi Paul

I bumped into this in a project just before I started working for LiveCode. There’s an issue some of the latter 6.7 releases that requires you to set the default folder to the folder the pdf printer dll is in before opening printing for the first time. I believe this is fixe in LC 8.

Cheers

Monte
> On 26 Jul 2016, at 4:49 PM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:
> 
> I have very large application running under LC 6.7.11 for Windows and OSX
> 
> I have code that does an "open printing for PDF", prints a field, and
> closes printing. Under OSX this works fine.
> 
> Under Windows, in both the IDE and a standalone, I get an execution
> error on the open printing for pdf line with the message:
> execution error at line n/a (printing: Unknown destination)
> 
> In the standalone, I might have interpreted this error as that the
> "revpdfprinter.dll" did not get added to the standalone, but it is
> (although why this dll is placed at the application level and not in the
> Externals folder continues to puzzle me).
> 
> I also might have though the file path & name passed to open pritning
> for pdf may have been a problem, but I have checked via debugger and the
> file path & name is valid, in a writable location, plenty of disk space,
> etc. Also tried multiple files and locations, so that is not it
> 
> However the fact that it happens in the IDE completely mystifies me. Can
> ANY one tell me what this error really means and what the cause may be?
> 
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