Re: win95/printing

In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 18 May 1999 16:56:17 +0200."
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  Ok, it seems that there is a problem with the print button.
  I'll fix that for the next release.

  Ramzi.

>Ramzi and Malcolm,
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>as I mentioned in my first posting, I - as well - do have these
>problems just with the print BUTTON. (Not with the MENUE.)
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>The MENUE "File/Print" works as espcected.
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>(And I have no problems with printing from other 
>applications.)
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>So maybe there is something wrong just with the
>call behind the print BUTTON?
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>Roland
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>Malcolm Austen wrote:
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>> On Mon, 17 May 1999, Ramzi GUETARI wrote:
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>> + In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 17 May 1999 17:25:28 +0200."
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>> +   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.
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>> Ramzi,
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>> 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.
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>> NB I've spared the list this evidence, I'll leave you to sumarize as and
>> when we have this tracked down.
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>> 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!
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Hope that all helps,
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>> regards,
>>         Malcolm.
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>>  Malcolm.Austen@OUCS.ox.ac.uk     http://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcolm/
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