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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 19 for Windows => Topic started by: Mike48 on December 17, 2013, 11:21:17 pm
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MC 19.0.91 on Windows 7/64 Pro.
I'm trying to print a simple text catalog of albums in my music library. I've created a View with the needed info, laid out just as I want to print it.
FAIL #1: Using File > Print List. This widens the columns so much that the printed catalog is not useful. Is there a way to print the columns in the widths the user has set onscreen or another way to control column widths in a report?
FAIL #2: Using File > Export Playlist (as csv). The idea was to import into Excel, fix the widths, and print. Excel 2010, however, doesn't recognize the csv as UTF-8. In researching this, I found that a byte-order-mark can be used in a Unicode file, and that MS products tend to require it. (My work-around is to use Libre Office, which handles UTF-8 better.)
REQUESTS:
(1) Could print widths please be user-configurable in MC soon? The usefulness of Print List is badly limited by this issue -- or have I overlooked something?
(2) Could a BOM be added to exported csv files, please, either optionally or by default.
Getting (1) would make it much easier to print useful reports! Thanks!
P.S. Of course I am not actually printing; I want to make a PDF to put onto my smartphone. But that's done through a Windows printer driver.
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Did you try the Copy/Paste method, into Excel?
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Did you try the Copy/Paste method, into Excel?
I didn't think of that, but now I've tried it, it works fine. Thanks, MrC! You are on target as usual.
Mike
P.S. I'd still love to be able to print a decent report directly from MC.
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I tried printing to PDF, but it seems MC renders the views as images, and scaled down to fit a page, they get pretty blurry.