Hi Chris,
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:54:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> maybe I can give you a little more advice so that you will be able
> to get the grafprt.bat running on your system.
> It is up to you how you create the bitmaps you are going to print
> - either with CTRL+P or with the PrtScr key.
I do both, depending on the page.
> A main thing is however to configure PRINTGFD. Its interface offers
> an option to save the present configuration. Otherwise you will have
> to send the settings on the command line and command line length in
> DOS is limited.
> I configured the program for the following default settings:
> :: /FI- HPLJ4
> :: /FI HPLJ5
> :: /L7.5,11.5,0.2,0 margins for A4 paper
> :: /Q1R dithering (on Pentium 266 MHz)
> :: /AA400,900,800,1000 image coordinates absolute -
> :: prints the first page of
> :: a 800px wide bitmap in portrait
> :: /A50,50,100 image coordinates relative -
> :: prints first page of any bitmap
I have had PRINTGFD configured for my system for a while.
> This seems to be due to problems with mime.cfg and grafprt.bat.
Indeed it is.
> 1. if you want to preserve the bitmap after printing, just leave out
> the part "\n del _4prt.bmp".
Yep, I had done that. :)
> 2. The grafprt.bat should be in the directory from where Arachne is
> running.
It is.
> In order to debug grafprt.bat I would recommend:
> - Insert echo and pause commands in order to see whether the
> program starts at all and whether variables are handed over
> correctly.
I tried that at first, and simply did not get grafprt.bat to run at
all. There was my problem !
> - If grafprt.bat does not even start the mistake is probably in the
> mime.cfg statement
There is !
> (is there another line with file/printbmp.dgi before?).
Nope.
> You can insert commands like "@echo $1 $2 $r\npause" even
> there in order to check what is going on.
I found the first problem - $r is not getting passed on correctly.
But once I re-wrote mime.cfg to read:
file/printbmp.dgi |@call grafprt.bat _4prt.bmp 800
and corrected grafprt.bat as indicated below, then it all worked as
advertised. Of course, I can only use this to print out webpages saved
with the Ctrl+P or PrintScreen functions, and only when I keep my screen
set at 800x640 pixels, and only if the page saved does not exceed the
width of my screen, but I can live with that.
> 3. My DOS version is MS-DOS 7.10 (W98), but I am not aware of any
> extraordinary commands here. Rather I have to admit that I did not
> test the plug-in on any other system than the Pentium 266.
No, I agree it is not relevant. But this is:
:loop800
shift
if "%1"=="" goto done
cls
i:\appl\grafprg\printgf\printgfd.exe %fname% /AA400,%1,800,1000
echo.
choice "more? [y/n] " /C:NY /N
if not errorlevel 2 goto done
goto loop780
^^^^^^^ This should say "loop800"
Thanks for your help. :)
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
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