IOS Print to PDF

[Nakia]

Hi Jacque,

tCardsToPrint is built from below, and the 2 values are the names of the Cards.

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put ("Print" & return & "Print2" & return) into tCardsToPrint

I will try the empty handler and place the cards back into the main stack

[Nakia]

Tried the empty handler in each print card (after putting them into the Mainstack) but still the same result.
FYI, printing loop worked again fine....

Any other suggestions?

[jacque]

You could lock messages instead, which prevents engine messages from occuring:

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on printPDF
  lock messages
  -- etc
  unlock messages
end printPDF

I'm not sure why printing doesn't print all pages. The best way for you to find out is to set a debugging checkpoint and trace each line. Or add a check for "the result" after the print command, there may be an error in it.

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print card (line x of tCardsToPrint) of stack "Printing" into 110,50,500,700
if the result is not empty then answer the result

[Nakia]

Hi Jacque,

Tried the lock message commad on the start of the handler but no luck unfortunately.
still seeing the same thing..

I will try getting it back into a Substack and debug this print loop..

[Nakia]

Okay,

So after adding the dubugging point in the print loop and seeing nothing I thought I might run it in the IDE and see what happened.
When it gets to printing the card it errors out and says:
"card or stack must be open to print it"

So i added -- openStack "Printing" to the start of the handler but it shows the stack even with the lock screen set..

[Nakia]

Success

- Set Invisibility to false of the sub Stack
- open and close the stack when printing

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on printPDF
   -- PDF Printing
   put specialFolderPath("documents") & "/Inspection.pdf" into tFilePath
   put ("Print" & return & "Print2" & return) into tCardsToPrint
   lock screen
   open stack "Printing"
   open printing to pdf tFilePath
   if the result is "Cancel" then exit printPDF
   repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of tCardsToPrint
      print card (line x of tCardsToPrint) of stack "Printing" into 110,50,500,700
      print break
   end repeat
   close printing
   close stack "Printing"
   wait 2 seconds
   unlock screen
   mergReader tFilePath
   
end printPDF

Thanks everyone for all their help!!!!