blank pdf [ignore please]

[Jeffrey Ferreira]

Hi List,
i am really scratching my head on this...

i have a program that is printing to pdf and the client says the pdf is blank...
so i decided to use that awesome feature "repeat data"

Repeat data did not disappoint...i created another pdf and repeat data  as follows
REPEAT DATA TO REAL_CHAN ON BACKUP_CHAN

the pdf that i created on Backup Chan looks perfect
the pdf that i created on the Real_Chan is blank.

i dont even know what question to ask besides How?

jeff

[Jeffrey Ferreira]

in hindsight i think i should have classified this under Programming because i think i'm doing something wrong.... but that is why i put the Repeat data to determine, "Jeff are you really printing anything?" and i also check that the Real Print chan is pointing to *pdf* (to make sure i'm not going to some other printer)

[Mike King]

I tried the following and both output files had the expected data...

->open (1) "*pdf*;file=file1.pdf"
->open (2) "*pdf*;file=file2.pdf"
->repeat data to 1 on 2
->print (1) "hello world"
->print (1) "This is a test"
->print (1) 'rectangle'(100,100,300,300),
->close (1)
->close (2)


You might try this to confirm the replication is okay.

[Jeffrey Ferreira]

Hi Mike that worked perfect...
i think replication is fine...
the only thing i can conclude is that i dont really have the pdf open anymore on the original print channel ...
perhaps it is zero and is printing on screen....
i have added a catch in place to hopefully figure out...

i guess when i emailed the list i was wondering if there was any command that would clear the pdf kind of like the 'AB' mnemonic...

but i honestly think it is just a bug in my code...
sorry about that.