Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its formatting

[Robert J. Earp]

Richard, many thanks for the thought.  If you mean the built-in “printing to pdf” then yes, but as far as I could see it only prints cards, not just field content.  Is there other pdf support ?

So, we’re having to mess around with creating a series of cards with a single field on each with their rects set to US Letter size, copying the desired field content into these and then printing to a pdf file.  With the current project where the field to print remains roughly the same character count it’s not a biggy to get pagination right, but I was hoping to build a tool that could take any size of field content with whatever tabs and output that automatically to a .pdf of letter size that may be one or more pages.

I haven’t got into controlling fonts yet, meaning does the “printing to pdf” use the font attributes that are displayed in the field on the card or ?  My simple test suggests yes.

best, Bob... 




> Subject: Re: Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its
> 	formatting
> 
> Robert J. Earp wrote:
> 
>> I?m not sure if the HTMLText solution will work for us as by default
>> the output file would open in a browser and we need to get it into
>> .pdf format to assemble (in Acrobat) with the other parts of the
>> report.
>> 
>> RogerG and I are currently mousing around creating a LC tool to output
>> a fields content to .pdf    It?s looking promising and we?ll let you
>> know of our success or not !!
> 
> Would LC's built-in print to PDF support not be an option?
> 
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems