open printing

Type

command

Summary

Begins a batch print job, which allows more than one card to be printed on a page.

Syntax

open printing [with dialog [as sheet]]

Description

Use the open printing command to print multiple cards.

Normally, the print command prints each card on a separate page. If you use the open printing command before issuing the print commands for the cards you want to print, the printing is delayed until all the cards have been specified. This causes the cards to be printed as one batch.

The open printing with dialog form opens the print dialog box on Mac OS systems. On Unix or Windows systems, this form acts like the open printing form, and no dialog box appears. If the as sheet form is used, the dialog box appears as a sheet on OS X systems.

The following handler prints cards that have been collected in a global variable:

    on printSomeCards
        global cardsToPrint
        open printing with dialog
        repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of cardsToPrint
            print card (line x of cardsToPrint)
        end repeat
        close printing -- send group of cards to printer
    end printSomeCards

note

On Linux, the printing commands use revpdfprinter to generate a PDF to send to the system printing system. If building a standalone, make sure you have selected 'revpdfprinter' in the inclusion options.

Examples

open printing

open printing with dialog

open printing with dialog as sheet

open printing
repeat with x = 1 to the number of cards
   print card
end repeat
close printing

Related

object: card

property: printTitle, printRowsFirst

command: cancel printing, print, close printing, revBrowserPrint, answer printer, answer page setup

glossary: print job, command

keyword: card

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 1.0

OS

mac

windows

linux

Platforms

desktop