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PrintCenter disappeared when printing with AirPrint on iOS18.1
Environment iPad:10th iOS:18.1 Printer:EPSON PX-S730 Problem In iOS18.1, When printing with AirPrint, PrintCenter is no longer displayed on AppSwitcher. In iOS17, PrintCenter was displayed on AppSwitcher. Question Is this a specification change? I would like to know if there is a way to check PrintCenter on AppSwitcher in the same way as iOS17. Ref No information after iOS18.1 update. https://support.apple.com/ja-jp/109349 There is no mention of AirPrint updates in the AppleDeveloper release notes. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-18-release-notes https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-18_1-release-notes
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If you cancel a print job using AirPrint while the printer is turned off, the print center remains on the app switcher and subsequent printing cannot be performed correctly.
-Environment iPad:10th、iOS:17.6.1、Printer:EPSON PX-S730 -Question Is this phenomenon due to iOS specifications? Restarting the iPad solves the problem, but I don't think it's best practice to restart it every time you reproduce it. Please let me know if you have a good solution. -Problem I am developing a print preview screen using AirPrint's print method. If you submit a print job using AirPrint on an iPad while the printer is turned off and then cancel it, the print center remains on the app switcher. After that, when I turned on the printer, I was no longer able to print using AirPrint on my iPad. When using AirPrint's API "print" and when printing by launching AirPrint from Safari, we have confirmed the same behavior in both cases. -How to reproduce Turn off the printer Print from iPad to printer using AirPrint Launch the print center from the app switcher, cancel the print job, and set the number of print jobs to 0. When you start the app switcher, the Print Center app remains. In step 4, turn on the printer and print from the iPad to the printer using AirPrint. When you start Print Center from the app switcher, the print job status becomes "Waiting" and the print job is not executed. -Expected result When there are no print jobs on the print center, the print center is closed on the app switcher. You can print from your iPad to the printer using AirPrint, and then print from the printer. -Actual results When there are no print jobs on the print center, the print center remains on the app switcher without being closed. In the above situation, when printing from the iPad to the printer using AirPrint, the printer does not print. When I start the print center, the print job status is "Waiting" and is queued. -Code printInfo.jobName = "Print Job" printController.printInfo = printInfo let pdfURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "sample", withExtension: "pdf")! printController.printingItem = pdfURL let printer = UIPrinter(url: printerUrl) printController.print(to: printer, completionHandler: { [self] printController, completed, error in if(error != nil){ print("error"). }else if completed{ print("completed") //this scenario handles completion response }else{ print("cancel") } }) -Link of API used Apple Developer-AirPrint-print -Similar inquiries Apple Developer Forum - Print Center on my iPhone shows a pending document to print and I can't get rid of it
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Print Center on iPad: Issues Persist After Canceling and Resending Print Jobs.
Environment→ ・Device: iPad 9th generation ・OS:**iOS17.5.1 ・Printer model:EPSON PX-S730 Current issues→ 01). After canceling a print job in the Print Center, the Print Center screen on the iPad does not close. 02). When the printer is turned on and a new print job is sent, the Print Center shows the ongoing waiting job instead of proceeding with printing. Problem Description→ The AirPrint feature on an iPad 9th generation running iOS 17.5.1 is being used with an EPSON PX-S730 printer. When sending a print job while the printer is off, the Print Center shows the ongoing printing job. If the print job is canceled in the Print Center, the Print Center screen on the iPad does not close. After turning on the printer and sending the print job again, the Print Center shows the ongoing waiting job. What I want→ The Print Center screen on the iPad to close automatically after canceling a print job. Test code: Note: printController.print response is completed but Print Center status is waiting let printInfo = UIPrintInfo(dictionary: nil) printInfo.jobName = "Print Job" printController.printInfo = printInfo let pdfURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "sample", withExtension: "pdf")! printController.printingItem = pdfURL let printer = UIPrinter(url: printerUrl) printController.print(to: printer, completionHandler: { [self] printController, completed, error in if(error != nil){ print("error"). }else if completed{ print("completed") //this scenario handles completion response }else{ print("cancel") } })
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Jul ’24
Printer Offline: No Error Message Received for Print Job Submission
Environment→ ・Device: iPad 9th generation ・OS:**iOS17.5.1 ・Printer model:EPSON PX-S730 Current issues→ An error message is not returned from the printer if a print job is sent while the printer is off. Problem Description→ The AirPrint feature on an iPad 9th generation running iOS 17.5.1 is being used with an EPSON PX-S730 printer. When sending a print job while the printer is off, the Print Center shows the ongoing printing job, but the printing cannot be executed because the printer is off. What I want→ I would like an error to be returned when I submit a printing job while the printer is off. Test code: Note: printController.print response is completed but Print Center status is printing let printInfo = UIPrintInfo(dictionary: nil) printInfo.jobName = "Print Job" printController.printInfo = printInfo let pdfURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "sample", withExtension: "pdf")! printController.printingItem = pdfURL let printer = UIPrinter(url: printerUrl) printController.print(to: printer, completionHandler: { [self] printController, completed, error in if(error != nil){ print("error"). }else if completed{ print("completed"). //this scenario handles completion response }else{ print("cancel") } })
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Jul ’24
Sequoia: Is saving print settings fixed in the beta?
Ever since the advent of Ventura, saved print settings don’t save detailed selections. Even with Sonoma, almost 2 years later, this issue is still a problem! There is a plethora of Apple Support Community topics to that end: Print settings don't work any more when upgraded to Ventura Updated to Ventura—printer presets won’t save Ventura—Custom Printer Settings not being saved Printer Not working after Ventura 13.0 update Problem saving print presets in Ventura Ventura is not saving printing presets (fully) Printing Problem with Ventura macOS Ventura (13.1) print settings don’t save—any resolution? Printer presets don’t save in Ventura Print settings are a MESS in Ventura
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Jun ’24
Printing programmatically in black & white?
Hi, In Windows and Linux, it's possible to ask a printer to print content programmatically in Black & White. This may be referred to as "Monochrome", "Grayscale", "B&W", depending on the device driver. For feature parity with other operating systems, I'd like to do the same -- programmatically -- in macOS using Objective-C or Swift. Is this possible? If not, what's the best, formal way to request this useful OS feature to Apple so that it may be added in a future release? More context about this request: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18195
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Apr ’24
Crash with UIPrintOptionsTableViewController
UIPrintInteractionController crashed when I use it to print a html content. Fatal Exception: NSInternalInconsistencyException UITableView dataSource returned a nil cell for row at index path: <NSIndexPath: 0x938e90f84baaa518> {length = 2, path = 1 - 0}. Table view: <UITableView: 0x107991000; frame = (0 0; 375 419); clipsToBounds = YES; gestureRecognizers = <NSArray: 0x2846b0000>; backgroundColor = <UIDynamicSystemColor: 0x281d2e400; name = systemGroupedBackgroundColor>; layer = <CALayer: 0x2848aa480>; contentOffset: {0, -56}; contentSize: {375, 357.0830078125}; adjustedContentInset: {56, 0, 0, 0}; dataSource: <UIPrintOptionsTableViewController: 0x107973800>>, dataSource: <UIPrintOptionsTableViewController: 0x107973800> here is the code private let webView = WKWebView() private let printController = UIPrintInteractionController.shared func showPrintView(encodedHtml: String) { printController.delegate = self let decodedHtmlString = base64Decode(encodedHtml) webView.loadHTMLString(decodedHtmlString, baseURL: nil) loadPrint() } private func loadPrint() { let printInfo = UIPrintInfo(dictionary: nil) printInfo.orientation = .landscape printController.printInfo = printInfo printController.printFormatter = webView.viewPrintFormatter() Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 0.6, repeats: false) { _ in self.printController.present(animated: true) { _, _, error in guard let error = error else { return } self.error = error } } } private func base64Decode(_ text: String) -> String { if let restoreData = Data(base64Encoded: text) { if let restoreString = String(data: restoreData, encoding: .utf8) { return restoreString } } return "" } I'm sure did nothing with UIPrintOptionsTableViewController so I have no idea how did this crash happened and how to fix it. Can someone help me?
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Jun ’24
Can I schedule multi print jobs parallelly in ios using UIPrintInteractionController?
For printing from worker thread to a UIPrinter(whose url i have saved ) i am doing this and able to print : func PrintPdfDocument (pDocument:Data) { // Create a print interaction controller let printController = UIPrintInteractionController.shared // Set the printing options let printInfo = UIPrintInfo(dictionary:nil) printInfo.jobName = "Print Job " printController.printInfo = printInfo printController.showsPageRange = true // Set the PDF document to be printed printController.printingItems = pDocument printController.print(to: defaulttprinter, completionHandler: { (controller, completed, error) in if completed { print("Printing successful!") } else { if let error = error { print("Printing failed with error: \(error.localizedDescription)") } else { print("Printing was canceled.") } } }) } When i call PrintPdfDocument (pDocument:Data) function , more than once with diffrent data shown below : DispatchQueue.global().async { PrintPdfDocument (pDocument:data1) } DispatchQueue.global().async { PrintPdfDocument (pDocument:data2) } DispatchQueue.global().async { PrintPdfDocument (pDocument:data3) } Printer is printing only one document(data1) . For other call is not executing printController.print (to....) function inside PrintPdfDocument.
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Feb ’24
cupsfilter documentation on scale and rotation
I'm working with cupsfilter command to convert files from PDF to PS. We had been previously working with cupsfilter on Linux, but we had to migrate to macOS and some of the command line arguments are not compatible. In particular, we can't control autorotation and scaling on macOS. They seem to be "on" by default, but there are some cases where we need to turn them "off" so page doesn't rotate or scale to fit automatically. On Linux, those options are controlled with -o nopdfAutorotate and -o nofit-to-page. Any ideas how to control rotation and scaling on macOS? Thank you very much in advance.
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Jan ’24
Using CUPS in iOS
I want to use CUPS in iOS for printing and it is mentioned at many places that we can use cups for printing in ios .But when i import library cups/cups.h ,xcode is giving error "cups/cups.h not found". code i am using in a objective c file : import &amp;lt;cups/cups.h&amp;gt; cups_dest_t *dest; int num_options; cups_option_t *options; int job_id; /* Print a single file */ job_id = cupsPrintFile(dest-&amp;gt;name, "/usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps", "Test Print", num_options, options); Do i need to intall some driver or any library to make it work ? or is it the case that CUPS is not available for iOS?
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Jan ’24
ios17 breaks custom page size for PDF export
We have an app that exports PDFs with a custom page size, using PSDKit. In iOS16 the PDF export would have the correct page size dimensions, but now iOS17 exports everything to a Letter (8.5x11) size, regardless of what the PDF size specs are defined in the code: let pageWidth: CGFloat = 86.0 / 25.4 * 72 let pageHeight: CGFloat = 54.0 / 25.4 * 72 let pageSize = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: pageWidth, height: pageHeight) Any thoughts as to how to fix this?
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-[UINavigationController pushViewController:transition:forceImmediate:]
Fatal Exception: NSInvalidArgumentException <UIPrintPanelNavigationController: 0x144010a00> is pushing the same view controller instance (<UIPrinterBrowserViewController: 0x142854400>) more than once which is not supported and is most likely an error in the application : com.myapp.myapp Fatal Exception: NSInvalidArgumentException 0 CoreFoundation 0xec870 __exceptionPreprocess 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x2bc00 objc_exception_throw 2 UIKitCore 0xcb284 -[UINavigationController pushViewController:transition:forceImmediate:] 3 UIKitCore 0xca398 -[UINavigationController pushViewController:animated:] 4 PrintKitUI 0x45024 -[UIPrintPanelNavigationController pushViewController:animated:] 5 UIKitCore 0x129b78 -[_UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator _applyBlocks:releaseBlocks:] 6 UIKitCore 0x129680 -[_UIViewControllerTransitionContext _runAlongsideCompletions] 7 UIKitCore 0x128d10 -[_UIViewControllerTransitionContext completeTransition:] 8 UIKitCore 0x7a3d48 __53-[_UINavigationParallaxTransition animateTransition:]_block_invoke_5 9 UIKitCore 0x84a38 __UIVIEW_IS_EXECUTING_ANIMATION_COMPLETION_BLOCK__ 10 UIKitCore 0x841d0 -[UIViewAnimationBlockDelegate _didEndBlockAnimation:finished:context:] 11 UIKitCore 0x83848 -[UIViewAnimationState sendDelegateAnimationDidStop:finished:] 12 UIKitCore 0x65aa4 -[UIViewAnimationState animationDidStop:finished:] 13 UIKitCore 0x65bb8 -[UIViewAnimationState animationDidStop:finished:] 14 QuartzCore 0x72098 run_animation_callbacks(void*) 15 libdispatch.dylib 0x4300 _dispatch_client_callout 16 libdispatch.dylib 0x12998 _dispatch_main_queue_drain 17 libdispatch.dylib 0x125b0 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF 18 CoreFoundation 0x3720c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ 19 CoreFoundation 0x33f18 __CFRunLoopRun 20 CoreFoundation 0x33668 CFRunLoopRunSpecific 21 GraphicsServices 0x35ec GSEventRunModal 22 UIKitCore 0x22c2b4 -[UIApplication _run] 23 UIKitCore 0x22b8f0 UIApplicationMain 24 MyApp 0x4a940 main + 14 (main.m:14) 25 ??? 0x1ac55adcc (Missing) I found this crash in Firebase crashlytics. This is device info Model:iPad Air (5th generation) Version:17.1.1 Orientation:Landscape Please help me to findout the root cause of the crash and possible solution. I have tried to reprduce the crash but didn't reproduce.
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Nov ’23
UIPrintInteractionController.shared on Mac OS Sonoma running iPad App
After updating to Mac OS Sonoma, we have encountered compatibility issues with our iPad-designed application, specifically with the AirPrint functionality, when it is run on MacOS. The AirPrint feature stopped working properly through UIPrintInteractionController.shared. We have noticed that when we compile the application using Catalyst, the AirPrint functionality is restored and works as expected. However, this solution is not viable for us due to the restrictions associated with the frameworks we are utilizing. We are seeking alternative solutions, and any help or guidance would be highly appreciated to resolve this issue and ensure a seamless and uninterrupted user experience in our application. STEPS TO REPRODUCE Create an app for ipad with just a button and this code var str = "TEST" let printInfo = UIPrintInfo(dictionary:nil) printInfo.outputType = .general printInfo.jobName = "Report" printInfo.orientation = .portrait let printController = UIPrintInteractionController.shared printController.printInfo = printInfo printController.showsNumberOfCopies = false printController.showsPageRange = false printController.showsNumberOfCopies = false let formatter = UIMarkupTextPrintFormatter(markupText: str) formatter.contentInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 72, left: 72, bottom: 72, right: 72) printController.printFormatter = formatter printController.present(animated: true, completionHandler: nil) 2.Run it on a MacOS with Sonoma, there is no error on console or anything but it don't work. -If you run it with Catalyst it just works when adding the Printing permission of App Sandbox in Signing & Capabilities.
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Sep ’24
Crash when presenting UIPrintInteractionController on iOS 16
Starting iOS 16 seeing some crashes related to pdf printing in the crash reporter. It looks like the issue is not so frequent. Also, I'm unable to reproduce the crash. Looks like the app crashes when the print preview dialog is opening. According to crash reports, there are some crashes on different iOS 16 versions: 16.0.0, 16.0.2, and 16.0.3. Printing code: let printInfo = UIPrintInfo.printInfo() printInfo.jobName = "Printing Job Name" self.printViewController = UIPrintInteractionController.shared self.printViewController?.printInfo = printInfo self.printViewController?.printingItem = pdfURL self.printViewController?.present(from: barButtonItem, animated: true) { (controller, completed, error) in self.printViewController = nil } Stack trace: compare_key + 4 (CGPDFObject.c:134) bsearch + 68 (bsearch.c:70) CGPDFDictionaryGetUnresolvedObject + 68 (CGPDFDictionary.c:153) CGPDFDictionaryGetObject + 44 (CGPDFDictionary.c:172) CGPDFDictionaryGetDictionary + 44 (CGPDFDictionary.c:284) get_pages_dictionary + 68 (pdf-reader.c:410) pdf_reader_get_number_of_pages + 76 (pdf-reader.c:557) -[UIPrintPreviewPageFetcher fetchNumberOfItems] + 76 (UIPrintPreviewPageFetcher.m:115) -[UIPrintPreviewViewController collectionView:numberOfItemsInSection:] + 32 (UIPrintPreviewViewController.m:482) -[UICollectionViewData _updateItemCounts] + 220 (UICollectionViewData.mm:335) -[UICollectionViewData isIndexPathValid:validateItemCounts:] + 52 (UICollectionViewData.mm:348) -[UICollectionViewData validatedGlobalIndexForItemAtIndexPath:] + 36 (UICollectionViewData.mm:778) -[UICollectionView _cellForItemAtIndexPath:] + 108 (UICollectionView.m:7112) -[UICollectionView _endItemAnimationsWithInvalidationContext:tentativelyForReordering:animator:collectionViewAnimator:] + 1384 (UICollectionView.m:9357) -[UICollectionView _updateRowsAtIndexPaths:updateAction:updates:] + 396 (UICollectionView.m:9104) -[UICollectionView reloadItemsAtIndexPaths:] + 52 (UICollectionView.m:9124) -[UIPrintPreviewViewController reloadVisibleItems:] + 256 (UIPrintPreviewViewController.m:568) __63-[UIPrintPreviewViewController updatePdfURL:options:completed:]_block_invoke_2 + 44 (UIPrintPreviewViewController.m:305) __NSBLOCKOPERATION_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 24 (NSOperation.m:1545) -[NSBlockOperation main] + 104 (NSOperation.m:1564) __NSOPERATION_IS_INVOKING_MAIN__ + 16 (NSOperation.m:2189) -[NSOperation start] + 708 (NSOperation.m:2206) There is full stack trace I got from the Organizer Thanks!
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