open printing, close printing, for print spool job

[J. Landman Gay]

william humphrey wrote:
> Thanks but I'm looking for:
> 
> 
>> open printing
>>  repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of cardsToPrint
>>    fillCardData (line x of cardsToPrint) -- load the fields here
>>    print this card -- which now contains new data
>>  end repeat
> 
> close printing
> 
>> And to have the printed cards all spool before printing. If you print to a
>> PDF then it would be a multiple page PDF. In the docs this should work but
>> for me only the last page is printing unless I do this:
> 
> 
>  open printing
> 
>>  repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of cardsToPrint
>>    fillCardData (line x of cardsToPrint) -- load the fields here
>>    print this card -- which now contains new data
> 
> close printing
> 
>>  end repeat
> 
> 
> But then each card prints individually... not what I wanted.

The example I gave will spool all the data first, I just left off the 
"open" and "close" printing commands (I assumed you'd keep those in 
place.) So yes, you need this:

open printing with dialog
if the result = "cancel" then exit <handler>
repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of cardsToPrint
  fillCardData (line x of cardsToPrint) -- load the fields here
  print this card -- which now contains new data
end repeat
close printing -- sends it all to printer

You will need to supply the correct info for "fillCardData", either a 
handler with that name, or some code that replaces that line which will 
read the database and fill the field contents in each iteration of the loop.

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