Hi Jos: Finally got around to testing your last suggestion from July (traveling the past 2 months) : still can't print using USB printer (my biggest problem with DP right now--vDos solved the compatibility with win 7). My goal is to have DP output in PDF and then I can do anything with it.
1. I REM'd out LPT1 printer setting in config.sys as suggested. 2. I tried to print out a report but no automatic PDF doc appeared. Instead, it printed to the attached parallel port and printer showed PCL codes (without the escape code). I double checked my report to make sure those escape codes preceeded my PCL codes in the report, and they're definitely there (esc 27) 3. I dowloaded the latest July vDOS version and also pcl6.exe was put into the vDOS folder. I thought perhaps DataPerfect's setting to send report to LPT1 somehow over rode the automatic PDF generato but I reset DP to make a file instead of print: that didn't help either. Nothing appears on screen. Was I supposed to put a pcl6.exe in the autoexec? Any special command in config? Thanks for your help! Jon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jos Schaars Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Dosprinter working in Vdos Hello Jon, Your DP application is sending PCL data to the printer. DOSPrinter doesn t understand PCL and is meant for Epson printer emulation. The one exception is the /RAW switch that lets DOSPrinter select the Windows printer and send the data directly to the printer w/o trying to interpret any Epson codes. LPT1 = /SEL'Brother HL-S370DW' /RAW But vDos should recognize the PCL data coming from your application and nothing would have to be set. The printer output should be converted to PDF and opened in your PDF reader. You didn t mention vDos complaining it couldn t start the PCL6.exe program: - Check if you have the latest version (2014.07.18) of vDos. - Look for any lines in config.txt with LPT1= ., remove them or comment them out with REM. - Read the instructions in the last four lines of config.txt. Jos _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
