printRanges

Reports the pages that should be printed in the next print job.

# Metadata

Platforms: desktop, server, mobile OS: mac, windows, linux, ios, android Introduced: 2.9 Security: printing

# Syntax

set the printRanges to rangesList

# Examples

set the printRanges to the text of field "Ranges" of group "Printer Settings"

set the printRanges to "1-5,10,12-20"

# Description

Use the printRanges property to specify ranges of pages to be printed.

If the printRanges is set to a list of ranges, LiveCode will automatically skip pages not in the range. Otherwise it is up to the application to print the appropriate pages.

If an application wishes to handle the skipping of pages, it can do so by setting the printRanges property to "all" before starting the printing loop.

>*Note:* LiveCode automatically handles coalescing overlapping ranges, > e.g. 1-10,5-25,23 will result in the range being 1-25.

To have an effect, this property must be set before calling open printing.

# Tags

printing,

# See

- **command:** open printing, answer printer - **property:** printPageNumber