Hi David,
I had some related - not identical - problems a little while ago - see emails
from Mark Waddingham on this list, 13/05/2026.
Short form is that at least for my problems, setting the font explicitly on
the fields where I was having issues, sorted them.
Mark suggests as a default setting an explicit font (and Arial I think is
fine) at the stack level.
Caveat: from his explanation, which I very nearly understood, this may be a
Mac-specific issue. If you're not on Mac, this may be of no use to you.
(One of the diagnostics was that if I used Print Card to Preview or Save to
PDF in the IDE, it worked fine; the issues were only seen when I using
explicit code similar to what you detail below.)
HTH,
Ben
I used to have a Hitchhiker's Guide towel.
On 22/07/2026 13:19, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
Hi folks,
Sadly, I have no Douglas Adams anecdotes, other than the joy of reading his
books and listening in my bedsit to the first Hitchhikers broadcast in 1978.
However, I do have a good old fashioned LiveCode question...
I have a card featuring closely packed label fields (arial) and other controls.
The only ‘product’ of the app was for some time capturing a PNG to the
clipboard. Then a user requested a save to PDF feature. I thought this would
be quick and easy, only to discover that the PDF rendered had many missing
words in the label fields. The text missing looks pretty random, not just
cropped at left or right of the field. It is also consistent, so same words
missing on each execution, and weirdly also only whole words, as far as I can
see.
The code I have previously had success with on a card with very similarly
tightly packed controls is
put the defaultfolder into toldfold
set the cursor to busy
set the defaultfolder to it
set the printPaperOrientation to "landscape"
put the printPaperRectangle into trect
set the cursor to busy
put the "TSI Scores " & the long date & ".pdf" into tfilename
open printing to pdf tfilename
if the result is "Cancel" then exit mouseup
print card 1 into 8,8,830,540
print break
print card 2 into 8,8,830,540
close printing -- send group of cards to printer
set the defaultfolder to toldfold
The only difference I can see is that the problem only arises with respect to
the card containing label fields. The above works fine with very tightly
packed buttons with labels.
In the end, to get it done in time for a meeting, I kludged a temporary page
containing a snapshot of the card and printed to PDF from that. Not really
what I wanted. I will probably have some time to wrestle with this next month
- so is there another solution to the problem, or am I just expecting too much
of the print to PDF rendering process?
Cheers
David G
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