open printing

Begins a batch print job, which allows more than one card to be printed on a page.

# Metadata

Platforms: desktop OS: mac, windows, linux Introduced: 1.0 Security: printing

# Syntax

open printing [with dialog [as sheet]]

# Examples

open printing

open printing with dialog

open printing with dialog as sheet

open printing repeat with x = 1 to the number of cards print card end repeat close 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:

on printSomeCards global cardsToPrint open printing with dialog repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of cardsToPrint print card (line x of cardsToPrint) end repeat close printing -- send group of cards to printer end printSomeCards

>*Note:* On Linux, the printing commands use revpdfprinter to generate a > PDF to send to the system printing system. If building a standalone, > make sure you have selected 'revpdfprinter' in the inclusion options.

# Tags

printing,

# See

- **keyword:** card - **property:** printTitle, printRowsFirst - **command:** cancel printing, print, close printing, revBrowserPrint, answer printer, answer page setup - **object:** card - **glossary:** print job, command