Text alignment in generated PDFs (print card from ... to... into...)

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2026-05-12 18:35, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote:
> Anyway, this email got longer as I continued to investigate. All I 
> really want is to figure out a way to get my nice right-aligned text 
> right. Is it perhaps possibly that if I started with a different font 
> or font size, it would render the same way in the PDF as it does on 
> screen?

Assuming you are doing this on macOS (which I'm guessing you are, given 
preview could generate PDFs!).

Does the stack you are printing have fonts explicitly set on the fields 
or at the stack level? If not that could be the issue...

At least for the pdf printer, the default macOS font is some sort of 
strange font which doesn't have a proper name (.blahblahblah) and 
appears not to like being poked in the way needed to print. If you set 
the textFont of the field/stack to a font name (i.e. non-empty, and one 
which exists) your formatting problems might go away.

Failing that - if you submit a bug report with the offending stack, we 
can take a look.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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