set the printersettings is not working

[minicooper97de]

hi forum,

i am on mac mojave with lc9-6-8 - i am stucking with the printersettings - they do not work.

after saving and loading the prefs - the print is not the same...

can some one tell me what is wrong??? or is it a bug?

best, andi

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  on mouseUp
   breakpoint
   reset printing
   put the printerName into tprinterName
   answer page setup -- select something other than default fe A6 - landscape !!!
   answer printer -- select something other than default fe other tray or grayscale !!!
   put the printerName into tprinterNameSelected
   print this card
   put the printerSettings into url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/printerpref")
   answer "prefs saved"
   put the printername into printernameSave
   reset printing
   -- read the settings...
   set the printerSettings to url ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/printerpref")
   
   put the printerName into tprinterNameAfterLoadSettings -- not the one i selected
   set the printername to printernameSave
   print this card -- printed, but not with the loaded prefs
   answer page setup -- not the loaded prefs
   answer printer -- not the loaded prefs
end mouseUp

[dunbarx]

Hi.

I am not sure what you are asking. Your handler opens a lot of dialogs, and stores the values of variables and settings. Then you reset printing and do sort of the same things again. Where did you change any of the settings?

If I just run your handler, I get two identical printed pages.

Craig

[minicooper97de]

hi dunbarx,

yes you are right. if you only use the default pinter and change nothing you will get the same result. but if you do change the settings (as I wrote in my code-comments) you perhaps get the same issue.... can you please try again ?

greetings, andy