Re: Printing (Preview in LC/screen vs Printer/PDF)

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
A correction. The images are reduced to 1/4 size ONLY when printing to PDF on Windows (printing to paper results in the image at expected size) This could be specific to Windows and the PDF "printer" (Foxit) being used. More testing is required. Premature posting ;-) On 10/23/2022 4:52 PM, P

fontName woes

2022-10-23 Thread R.H. via use-livecode
I can confirm that on my Windows 64bit no font substyles are working in LiveCode. This really needs to be addressed, but may not be of such high priority, I assume. The text engine used is not bad but probably outdated. Or, maybe I am wrong? Or are there just name conflicts? Roland _

Printing (Preview in LC/screen vs Printer/PDF)

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I know this topic has been covered previously, probably many many times, but my search skills are failing me. We have a "printing stack" in our app that, among other things, provides a "Print Preview" view. This takes the printer margins, page size, orientation, etc and creates a stack with th

fontNames woes

2022-10-23 Thread Neville Smythe via use-livecode
My grand project to compile a database of cross-platform LC font metrics is slowly progressing, though rather hindered by bugs in LC. In particular fontNames() produces inconsistent results between Mac and Windows (and is not available in Linux) and worse can produce incorrect results on the Ma