electron Print issue on Electron from v7 - Print only works once (window.print()) - Cplusplus

@ChenAlon Running that exact gist on v8.0.0-beta.4 on macOS 10.14.5 works for me without incident as expected - are you sure that it's broken there?

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Answered Dec 05 '19 at 21:40

codebytere

@codebytere, yes. Did you see the video? I just tried the same on a different machine, macOS 10.14.6 and I still see the same issue (v8.0.0-beta-4).

Here are some logs from the Console app logs:

This happen after I click the print button:

default 09:20:26.517943 +0200   Electron    failed to get application bundle
default 09:20:26.517986 +0200   Electron    Error in AHRegisterHelpBookWithURL: -50
default 09:20:26.546347 +0200   Electron    failed to get application bundle
default 09:20:26.546375 +0200   Electron    Error in AHRegisterHelpBookWithURL: -50
default 09:20:26.546978 +0200   Electron    failed to get application bundle
default 09:20:26.547006 +0200   Electron    Error in AHRegisterHelpBookWithURL: -50
default 09:20:26.551532 +0200   Electron    failed to get application bundle
default 09:20:26.551558 +0200   Electron    Error in AHRegisterHelpBookWithURL: -50

And this after I click Print on the Print dialog (Save to PDF):

error   09:20:44.808648 +0200   Electron    errors encountered while discovering extensions: Error Domain=PlugInKit Code=13 "query cancelled" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=query cancelled}
default 09:20:44.808700 +0200   Electron    OSErr AERemoveEventHandler(AEEventClass, AEEventID, AEEventHandlerUPP, Boolean)(ficl,askM handler=0x7fff4f4e929b isSys=NO) err=0/noErr
default 09:20:44.902731 +0200   Electron    Adding presenter FB6315CE-2576-4C18-9CD3-6FD62B32F914 for URL: <private>
default 09:20:49.907229 +0200   Electron    Removing presenter FB6315CE-2576-4C18-9CD3-6FD62B32F914
default 09:20:51.715695 +0200   Electron    LSExceptions shared instance invalidated for timeout.

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Answered Dec 08 '19 at 07:26

ChenAlon

I think this should block a stable release until fixed. Only being able to print once seems like a pretty severe issue. I know it's a show-stopper for us. We tried resolving by rolling back to v6.x, but then got hit with https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/19768 . In our case (site wrapper) the workarounds don't help, so we're pretty much stuck. IMO getting back to print stability in v8 would finally take this off the table.

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Answered Jan 24 '20 at 15:02

daveajones

@barbalex yes, as you can see above i PR'd a fix into this yesterday. That means it will be fixed in the next released versions of 6, 7, and 8.

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Answered Jan 28 '20 at 20:25

codebytere

@codebytere sorry, that printing works only once.

And yes, obviously your merge will only be in the next release so sorry for bugging.

And THANKS A LOT for solving the issue!

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Answered Jan 28 '20 at 20:27

barbalex

@barbalex of course! printing is an ongoing struggle so apologies for the occasional failures, but it's something i care about to large extent so i'm always happy to tackle printing bugs when they come up :D

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Answered Jan 28 '20 at 20:28

codebytere

Hi,

I am encountering the exact same problem in version 10.1.1 (latest version currently) on mac. Can anyone else please confirm if the issue has been reintroduced?

Btw, I have tried to approaches to printing:

1. button onclick="window.print()"
2. using ipc, window.webContents.print()

PS: I am new to electron. Thank you!

Update: I downgraded to 7.1.11 and it seems to be working. Looks like it has been reintroduced.

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Answered Sep 11 '20 at 22:01

dipunj

I just tested with https://gist.github.com/0f0e776b138452d6815ef4efc16aa0d1 and had no issues running window.print multiple times on v10 with macOS. Additionally you absolutely do not want to use a version as old as 1.8 for any reason.

Edit: found an issue i think - it looks specific to 10 though as i cannot reproduce it on 11 and master. I'll try to suss it out.

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Answered Sep 18 '20 at 14:17

codebytere

@codebytere thank you for that gist. I will compare your gist with my code and update you here.

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Answered Sep 18 '20 at 14:24

dipunj