PDF Printing

[Marty Knapp]

It could be a corrupted font cache - I’ve found that can cause weird behavior as you’re describing. If you’re on a Mac, do a “safe reboot” (start up with the shift key pressed) and after it boots up, do a normal reboot. That will delete the current font caches and then rebuild them from scratch. It’s little harder to fix on Windows - if that is the case you might Google that.

Worth a try anyway.

Marty

> On Oct 4, 2022, at 8:20 AM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I am getting different results using "open printing to pdf" vs standard printing to a printer.   I have a card with a single field on it with some formatted text in it.   If I print the card to a printer using "open printing with dialog" it all looks perfect (even if I choose to save it to PDF in the print dialog).   But, if I use the "open printing to pdf" method, it get wrong fonts and inconsistent tab spacings.   Here is the EXACT code I am using:
> 
> on mouseUp currSName
>  put (the hilite of btn "printAsPDF" of stack "ReportOptions") into printAsPDF
> 
>  if printAsPDF then
>    ask file "Save As PDF:" with (currSName & ".pdf")
>    put it into pdfPath
>    open printing to pdf pdfPath
>  else
>    open printing with dialog
>  end if
> 
>  if the result is "Cancel" then
>    exit mouseUp
>  end if
> 
>  print card 1 of stack "GB_PReport"
>  close printing
> end mouseUp
> 
> Here are examples of the printouts (the PDFs):
> Print to PDF - https://www.clearvisiontech.com/WORKING/PrintToPDF1.pdf
> Print to Printer - https://www.clearvisiontech.com/WORKING/PrintToPDF2.pdf
> 
> Any thoughts or ideas?
> 
> LC 9.6.8