dart_pdf iOS 15 - Thermal Receipt Printer page too long

iOS 15 - Thermal Receipt Printer page too long

Open liammdowney opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Hello,

Describe the bug

I'm having an issue with printing on a continuous roll of 102mm receipt paper. So some reason, it attempts to print 2 meters of paper even though I'm specifying 340 mm in length (and 102mm width).

Code

 var printFormat = const PdfPageFormat(
        102 * PdfPageFormat.mm,
        340 * PdfPageFormat.mm,
      );

      var pdf = await Printing.convertHtml(
        format: printFormat,
        html: html,
      );

      await Printing.layoutPdf(
        format: printFormat,
        onLayout: (PdfPageFormat format) async => pdf,
      );

Expected behavior I expected the receipt to print preview and print the correct length. When you use sharePdf and then choose print from the share options, it all works as it should.

Screenshots

Screen Shot 2022-04-06 at 8 46 36 AM

Flutter Doctor

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    • Engine revision 890a5fca2e
    • Dart version 2.15.1

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

[x] iOS
[ ] Android
[ ] Browser
[ ] Windows
[ ] Linux

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

Device: iPad (9th Generation)
OS: iOS 15.2
Browser: N/A
Version printing: ^5.7.2, pdf: ^3.7.1

Additional context

I think I've fixed the behaviour by overriding cutLengthFor in PrintJob.swift

Create a new variable.

 private var currentSize: CGSize?

Override UIPrintInteractionController with the cutLengthFor param.

public func printInteractionController(_ printInteractionController: UIPrintInteractionController, cutLengthFor paper: UIPrintPaper) -> CGFloat {
        if currentSize == nil{
            return  paper.paperSize.height
        }

        return currentSize!.height
       
    }

Assign the class level param currentSize to be the same as size

 func printPdf(name: String, withPageSize size: CGSize, andMargin margin: CGRect, withPrinter printerID: String?, dynamically dyn: Bool) {
        currentSize = size

This seems to fix the issue.

Screen Shot 2022-04-06 at 8 42 22 AM