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When I choose print from the overflow menu for a song, MSP displays a totaly blank, white page. It's been a while (months) since I tried it, but previously it would display options as per the manual and I could print using Google Cloud print. I'm on a Pixelbook ChromeOS 80.0.3987.128, MSP 2.9.0.
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I'm going to have to look into why it's happening, but it looks like Google's print framework is waiting until my app has rendered every page of the document before showing it to the user. So if you wait for awhile (possibly 15-60 seconds depending upon your PDF), the print dialog will finally come up and you can use the printing feature like normal. I'll see if there is some way for me to fix whatever is going on so it renders in the background like it's supposed to.
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It seems like this must have been a change Google made on their side for the print dialog. My code hasn't changed in a very long time and it still works correct on my non-chrome OS devices. The main problem is that my code matches exactly what Google says you should do for printing (I do everything in the background), but their side is now waiting for my background processing to finish before showing the user anything which makes no sense at all. There seems to be nothing I can change in my code to fix this problem as I don't control Google's print service (it's a part of the OS that applications can utilize and communicate with). Hopefully Google is aware of the issue and will eventually fix it.
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That's bizarre that you never saw the dialog displayed - I'm not sure why I'm seeing different behavior on my Chromebook. I wish I had an easy way to communicate with Google engineers about it so I could get some answers.
I've been working hard on the annotations redesign the last couple months. A couple weeks back, I implemented all of the custom stamp code and tested dropping in both custom bitmaps and custom SVG files. Both worked great. So that feature will be available as soon as the redesign is released.
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Are you testing with a large library installed?
That's very good news about the stamps!
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The library I tested with on my Chromebook had about a 1000 songs in it. I'm not sure why that would have any impact on printing though, unless you were printing a file with hundreds of pages in it.
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Does this apply to all song you are trying to print or is it only when you try to print a page from a lsrge fakebook?
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All songs. I specifically chose songs that I knew I imported singly as PDFs file size around 120K and also ones associated with a batch import with file sizes in the 10s of MB.