- From: Roland Bauer <roland.bauer@fff.at>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 16:56:17 +0200
- To: Malcolm Austen <malcolm.austen@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
- CC: Ramzi GUETARI <Ramzi.Guetari@inrialpes.fr>, List Amaya <www-amaya@w3.org>
Ramzi and Malcolm, as I mentioned in my first posting, I - as well - do have these problems just with the print BUTTON. (Not with the MENUE.) The MENUE "File/Print" works as espcected. (And I have no problems with printing from other applications.) So maybe there is something wrong just with the call behind the print BUTTON? Roland Malcolm Austen wrote: > > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Ramzi GUETARI wrote: > > + In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 17 May 1999 17:25:28 +0200." > + <374034E8.B7966D50@fff.at> > + > + Your problem does not come from Amaya. Amaya allow you to print > + using the driver of your default printer or of another one you > + can choose from the list of printers connected to your computer. > + If the there is a driver but no printer corresponding to this > + driver is connected then the control is given to the driver. This > + latter displays a dialog allowing you to enter e file name or to > + cancel the process (THIS DIALOG IS NOT AMAYA ONE). And Amaya > + never asks to save in pdf format. > + What your are talking about is a driver problem and _not_ Amaya problem. > > Ramzi, > > Sorry to bring bad news, but I'm convinced this is an Amaya problem. The > good news is that some observations that bring me to this conclusion > follow, I hope they will help isolate the problem. > > NB I've spared the list this evidence, I'll leave you to sumarize as and > when we have this tracked down. > > My first observation is, of course, that to the best of my knowledge Amaya > is the only application that exhibits this behaviour. However I have just > spent some time trying different printer drivers to see what happens. In > fact almost everything available to me is driven through the AdobePS > driver but I do have a local HP690 using it own PCL driver (it shows the > same erroneous behaviour). I also installed the Generic DOS/text driver as > a baseline of unsophistication, that proved to be a crucial move! > > There are three ways to print from Amaya - the print button, File/Print > and File/Setup&Print. On the surface thay all do the same thing in that > they all offer the ToC/Numbered Links/Print URLs options and then go to > the standard w95 printer selection box. However, the two File menu options > (what is the difference between them?) both work fine and print. > > The print button however, as I have now established after installing the > generic text driver ... always uses the _last_installed_ printer > regardless of the printer displayed in the w95 printer selection box. That > is to say, having just installed the generic text driver I no longer get > the Save as PDF dialogue, I always get a report that my generic dos > printer isn't turned on. > > This further point may not be related, but why is it that printing by all > three methods perform an "Alt+Esc" action to pass the focus to the > previously active window along the way? I guess this is a spurious > side-effect of closing the "Printing..." box and should be returning the > focus to Amaya rather than the window prior to Amaya? > > Hope that all helps, > > regards, > Malcolm. > > Malcolm.Austen@OUCS.ox.ac.uk http://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcolm/ -- roland.bauer@fff.at http://www.fff.at/fff/roland/
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