<div dir="ltr">David, <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div>Kirk</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:25 PM, David T. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com" target="_blank">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 08:20:13PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 04:43:12PM -0700, Kirk Fraser wrote:<br>
> > Several different things are polymorphically called print. How do I send<br>
> > text to a peripheral printer? I found the menu item "Send contents to<br>
> > printer" and it produced walkback which says<br>
> > "MessageNotUnderstood: SmalltalkEditor>sendContentsToPrinter". Printer<br>
> > setup similarly failed yet after the OS supplied the customary sound that<br>
> > the printer was hooked up.<br>
> ><br>
> > This occurred in Squeak 4.5 under Windows 7. What would solve the problem<br>
> > best? Upgrading Squeak? Getting a different printer? Going back to<br>
> > Digitalk Smalltalk/V and a dot matrix ribbon printer where it did work<br>
> > years ago?<br>
><br>
> Hi Kirk,<br>
><br>
> That MessageNotUnderstood is a bug for sure. I'm surprised nobody spotted<br>
> the MNU until now; I suspect that it has been broken for quite a while.<br>
><br>
> I'm afraid that this is negected functionality. As a workaround, there are<br>
> various ways to export to files which can then be printed. The contents of<br>
> a workspace can be exported to a text file, and any morph can exported in<br>
> various ways (included postscript) by means of the tools button in morph<br>
> halo menus (yellow click on any morph).<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Sorry, I guess that would be the blue button (not yellow) that brings up<br>
the morph halos.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Dave<br>
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