Mac Monterey O$ 10.1 PDF not creating

[Nigel Hughes]

Sue

Could the pathname be wrong.

The difference between posix and hfs. 

I check what the macOS expects and set the pathname accordingly.

Regards

Nigel


> On 23 May 2022, at 02:42, Sue Leaver <sue at leaver.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> A client upgraded their Mac to Monterey and are running Studio 10.1 - I see
> they should be using 10.2 but that isn't an option at the moment. The
> program uses the code below to print an invoice to a PDF. When they upgraded
> to Monterey it stopped creating the PDF. Same thing with a text file created
> elsewhere in the program, file stopped creating. I don't have a Mac to try
> things on. Hoping someone can tell me how to get this working again.
> 
> 
> 
> Sue
> 
> 
> 
> Calculate HTML_FILE_NAME as con(SYSTEM_PDF_LOCATION,'Inv',ENTRY_CODE)
> 
> Do ivoP.$setAttachmentDevice(HTML_FILE_NAME,kTrue,kTrue) ## true means
> delete any preexisting file of the same name
> 
> Do $cdevice.$assign(kDevOmnisPDF) ## set which device to print to
> 
> Do $prefs.$reportfile.$assign(HTML_FILE_NAME)
> 
> Set report name Dr_Invoices
> 
> Calculate ENTRY_SEQ_COPY1 as ENTRY_SEQ
> 
> Set search as calculation (ENTRY_SEQ=ENTRY_SEQ_COPY1)&not(ITEM_CONTROL)
> 
> Print report (Use search) 
> 
> #Wait for file to be created
> 
> Repeat
> 
> Do FileOps.$doesfileexist(HTML_FILE_NAME) Returns #8
> 
> Calculate iNum as sleep(100)
> 
> Until #8=kTrue
> 
> 
> 
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