RevPrintText/Field/Card problems

[ron barber]

Thanks Jan for checking on this, I'll bug it now. Hopefully, it can be 
fixed with 2.5.

Ron


On Aug 9, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> --- ron barber <rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Any chance RevPrintText will be updated to support
>> Unicode? Printing
>> unicode text is proving challenging. Type Unicoded
>> text into a fld and
>> then use the various print options available to us.
>>
>> <revprinttext >
>> put the htmltext of fld 1 into thetext
>> revshowprintdialog false,true
>> revprinttext thetext
>> === This results in a blank page(s) being previewed
>> as well as 'printed'
>>
>> put the text of fld 1 into thetext
>> revshowprintdialog false,true
>> revprinttext thetext
>> === This results in the unicode text being printed
>> in ascii format ie.
>> incorrectlly
>>
>> <Print card...>
>> This can be used. One just needs to clone a stack
>> with a field the size
>> of the printable area of the chosen paper, add a
>> little to the topright
>> and chop off a little of the bottomleft to get rid
>> of the fld outline
>> and it passes as a printed page of text. It is not
>> an ideal solution
>> however.
>>
>> <revprintfield>
>> This works for ascii text but not for unicode. The
>> results is a blank
>> page(s) similar to using revprinttext using
>> htmltext.
>>
>>
>> thanks
>> Ron
>>
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> If you haven't filed a bugzilla report yet, you
> should, as otherwise it's not going to get on the
> agenda -- however, I think I've found the culprit :
> handler 'revSetPrintFont' in the 'revPrintBack'
> backscript doesn't take into account if the field font
> is set to something unicode, like "Osaka,Japanese"
> when it checks if the textFont of the field is in the
> fontnames of the printer.
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
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