Hard copy printing of blockly programs

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OldTinkerer

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blockly has problems where, though the program can be displayed on the pc screen, it cannot be ,cut or pasted.
This is an issue for documenting blockly educational documents.
I would hope that Picaxe would gain a PDF export key so that complete picaxe blockly programs nan be exported into educational documents.

Unfortunately that can only be done by turning blockly programs into Basic.
 
Blockly within PE6 has Print and PDF buttons on the ribbon/toolbar. Or just use a tool like Windows Snipping tool.

Blockly cloud/app has 'Project>Export as Image' and after exporting the canvas image any graphics package can be used to edit/crop the image as required. The 'Project>Print' menu can print directly or convert to PDF (as most modern operating systems also have a 'Print to PDF' option as a selectable printer).
 
There seems to be a restriction, in that, picaxe restricst the size of a PDF to a single page ,and That single page tends to be just the first page of the PDF.
As far as my own limited experience goes, I have had to cut blocky programs down into smaller, single page program chunks. Then convert those individual small program chunks into PDFs, then , print these small chunks and reassemble them all back together.

Unfortunately, that prevents me and any students ( my own students are my own grandchildren) from bringing it and any changes all back together in 'hard copy.

I sugest you give it a try!
 
As already mentioned Project>Export as Image in the app/cloud version exports the whole canvas as one image.
 
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