Printing borked for LC Linux?

[Richmond]

I'd like to address your comments bit-by-bit, so firgive me for 
interleaving them in your post.

On 14.03.21 22:16, JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode wrote:
> I understand, for me no issue. But for a novice, or an elderly someone 
> with very minor knowledge about computers that is already an obstacle. 
> They can find the print icon, that's about it.

AS the proud possessor of a 90 year old Mum I can confirm this.

>
> Op 12-3-2021 om 01:20 schreef Bob Sneidar via use-livecode:
>> As a print device specialist, I can tell you that printing directly 
>> from a web browser, be it a PDF or a web page or anything, is 
>> problematic. It is ALWAYS better to produce a PDF then print from a 
>> real PDF product. Web browsers give you printing as an afterthought. 
>> “Oh you want to print too?? Uh… okay here you go.”

Erm: I assume this message somehow connects with LiveCode, although that 
is not clear.

Be that true, my comments are based on that:

Yes, printing directly from a browser is utter crap as everything gets 
shunted around, resized and so forth.
So, printing from a browser is largely a waste of time, paper and ink/toner.

HOWEVER, printing from the LC browser widget does NOT have to conform to 
what web-browsers that sit directly on
the OS do, and it would serve the whole LC community if printing 
vis-a-vis the browser widget worked in the same
way as, say, printing out a document from LibreOffice.

One would suppose that one could leverage _print card_ in a way that 
would serve . . .

As long as one's browser widget size coincided with the size of the card 
on which the browser widget resided
one should get something printed out that resembled the web page as it 
was displayed inwith the browser widget.

Of course (!) this might mean that one would have to have some "funny" 
code in one's print button:

set the width of stack "BASEC" to the width of widget "WBB"
set the height of stack "BASEC" to the height of widget "WBB"
set the top of widget "WBB" to 0
set the left of widget "WBB" to 0
.....

this might entail quite a lot of the stack disappearing off-screen, but 
one could have more code resizing the stack back to its "normal" size 
after the _print card_ signal had been sent.

Will try this later and post images to the Forums . . .

Best, Richmond.
>>
>> Bob S
>>
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2021, at 12:25 PM, JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Not just LC.

Aha: an orphaned phrase. Gottit!

>>
>> If you try to print a Gmail message in Firefox on Ubuntu Mate, then 
>> it creates also a pdf which is not getting printed.
>>
>> Doing the same in chrome and it prints correct.
>>
>> Printing from Firefox to pdf, then open the pdf in the standard pdf 
>> reader, it prints also correct.
>>
>> This was with a Canon inkjet, but there are also issues with other 
>> brands. In this it looks like Firefox is doing something weird.
>>
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