wbsoft/frescobaldi — Issue #30: Printing score under Mac OS X
Author: philmassart
Created: 2012-02-09 12:11:51+00:00
State: open

Something I didn't manage to get working is printing a score; I've never had problems with source code printing, it only occurs with the pdf rendering.

In both cases, the beginning of the process is normal:
* clicking the menu line (print score or print source code) gives the same Print dialog box (I guess QT calls for a standard OS print dialog).

Then, in the case of source code, printing starts (if I choose to print to a pdf, the pdf is created without problem). If it's about printing the score, I got the message "Could not send the document to the printer".

As explained in a previous issue, PDF is first translated to ps before being sent to the printer. Is it working that way for both source code and score ? If not, could it be a source of that problem ?

I tried the lpr command with the Terminal, and it mainly works (with some margins problem), so I guess the problem is elsewhere.

Something that could help : usually, I run Frescobaldi from a shell script packed in a bundled Mac app. But when running Frescobaldi from the terminal (python frescobaldi), the "print score" menu line is greyed (inactive), while the "print source code" is working (but produces a warning in the terminal "2012-02-09 13:04:10.547 Python[54617:f07] Incorrect NSStringEncoding value 0x0000 detected. Assuming NSASCIIStringEncoding. Will stop this compatiblity mapping behavior in the near future.")

Philippe