Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its formatting

[Paul Dupuis]

Look at "revPrintField" in the Dictionary. If I recall, I think this can 
be used with the open printing to pdf command



On 4/10/2019 12:46 PM, Robert J. Earp via use-livecode wrote:
> Richard, many thanks for the thought.  If you mean the built-in “printing to pdf” then yes, but as far as I could see it only prints cards, not just field content.  Is there other pdf support ?
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> So, we’re having to mess around with creating a series of cards with a single field on each with their rects set to US Letter size, copying the desired field content into these and then printing to a pdf file.  With the current project where the field to print remains roughly the same character count it’s not a biggy to get pagination right, but I was hoping to build a tool that could take any size of field content with whatever tabs and output that automatically to a .pdf of letter size that may be one or more pages.
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> I haven’t got into controlling fonts yet, meaning does the “printing to pdf” use the font attributes that are displayed in the field on the card or ?  My simple test suggests yes.
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> best, Bob...
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>> Subject: Re: Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its
>> 	formatting
>>
>> Robert J. Earp wrote:
>>
>>> I?m not sure if the HTMLText solution will work for us as by default
>>> the output file would open in a browser and we need to get it into
>>> .pdf format to assemble (in Acrobat) with the other parts of the
>>> report.
>>>
>>> RogerG and I are currently mousing around creating a LC tool to output
>>> a fields content to .pdf    It?s looking promising and we?ll let you
>>> know of our success or not !!
>> Would LC's built-in print to PDF support not be an option?
>>
>> -- 
>>   Richard Gaskin
>>   Fourth World Systems
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