[Newbies] How do I print?

[Kirk Fraser]

David,

Thanks for the tip to create a file and print with external tools.  I need
to write a program to extract PO Boxes from a county voter list to send out
post cards inviting each voter to sign my petition in a central location at
one minute intervals to reduce the crowds. One of them will be to term
limit the local mayor.  So I thought to generate the cards one at a time
but your way can work.
Kirk



On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:25 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 08:20:13PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 04:43:12PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:
> > > Several different things are polymorphically called print.  How do I
> send
> > > text to a peripheral printer?  I found the menu item "Send contents to
> > > printer" and it produced walkback which says
> > > "MessageNotUnderstood: SmalltalkEditor>sendContentsToPrinter".  Printer
> > > setup similarly failed yet after the OS supplied the customary sound
> that
> > > the printer was hooked up.
> > >
> > > This occurred in Squeak 4.5 under Windows 7.  What would solve the
> problem
> > > best?  Upgrading Squeak?  Getting a different printer? Going back to
> > > Digitalk Smalltalk/V and a dot matrix ribbon printer where it did work
> > > years ago?
> >
> > Hi Kirk,
> >
> > That MessageNotUnderstood is a bug for sure. I'm surprised nobody spotted
> > the MNU until now; I suspect that it has been broken for quite a while.
> >
> > I'm afraid that this is negected functionality. As a workaround, there
> are
> > various ways to export to files which can then be printed. The contents
> of
> > a workspace can be exported to a text file, and any morph can exported in
> > various ways (included postscript) by means of the tools button in morph
> > halo menus (yellow click on any morph).
> >
>
> Sorry, I guess that would be the blue button (not yellow) that brings up
> the morph halos.
>
> Dave
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