PassThru Printing with Embedded Spaces

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2015, Kenneth Brody wrote:
...
> Bob said:
>
>> It needs:
>>    chr(28)
>> followed by
>>    printer "pdf://D:/AP_Images/AP/F/FILEP-01 - FilePro Mailing List/123456.pdf"
>> followed by
>>    chr(29)
>>
>> The quotes are necessary. There should be no linefeeds or carriage returns.
>
> So the answer is simple.  Just surround the filename with CHR("34"):
>
>     show raw chr("28") & "printer " & chr("34") & filename &
>          chr("34") & chr("29")

The answer is even simpler, don't put whitespace in file names as
they can cause problems with scripting.

It's one thing for clueless users to put whitespace in manually,
another for developers to do it intentionally.

Bill
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