Print - Print Preview

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Robert

January 02, 2020 16:36

How do I print the actual print preview? Print to PDF shows a full markdown code rather than the print preview.

 

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  Fletcher Penney

  January 03, 2020 02:19

  File->Print Preview Using Browser.

   

  Apple's WKWebView doesn't support printing, unfortunately, and they seem to no longer be maintaining the code for the older (deprecated) WebView.  For the moment, this seems to be the primary work around.

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  Sebastian Winkler

  November 14, 2022 12:53 Edited

  This doesn't seem to be viable anymore.

  What, please, is the current way to print (or produce a PDF, for that matter) from the preview? (File –> Print Preview is always greyed out for me.)

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  Fletcher Penney

  November 14, 2022 16:02

  WKWebView supports printing now (since macOS 11), so we have migrated to a built in solution for the preview rather than the old workaround that involved running an embedded web server (which enabled the print via browser trick, but still did not support native printing).

  If Print Preview is greyed out, then it means you are running an older version of macOS (e.g. pre-11) and printing from WKWebView is not available on that OS.

  My understanding from Brett is that the current version of Marked still uses the older WebView instead of WKWebView which allows printing, but is deprecated so future versions of macOS may stop supporting it at some point.  But otherwise, that offers an alternative for printing the HTML from a Markdown file.

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  Sebastian Winkler

  November 15, 2022 11:03

  Thanks for the response, Fletcher!
  'Tis true, I've (mostly quite contently) remained in macOS 10.
  I'll see if Marked is the way out.

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