open printing | |||||||
Type | command | ||||||
Dictionary | LCS | ||||||
Library | LiveCode Script | ||||||
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Summary | Begins a batch print job, which allows more than one card to be printed on a page. | ||||||
Introduced | 1.0 | ||||||
OS | mac, windows, linux | ||||||
Platforms | desktop | ||||||
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Related | Keyword: card Property: printTitle, printRowsFirst Command: cancel printing, print, close printing, revBrowserPrint, answer printer, answer page setup Object: card Glossary: print job, command | ||||||
Security | printing | ||||||
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:
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Tags | printing |