With the help of some fine people at MI and some pure BS luck, I found out some interesting things about Windows NT and MI 6. Problem: I would save a workspace in MI 6 specifying a paper size, say 36 x 36, and printer, in my case HP 750C. If I looked at the .wor in Notepad, it showed all the proper info, but when opened in MI, the layout would show 8 1/2 x 11 and my default windows printer, in this case, a laser jet. Every time I opened a .wor, I would have to go thru' the Page Setup, and all the dialog boxes that entails. Solution: Start...Settings...Printers. Select the HP750, then File...Document Defaults and set up a few custom paper sizes. What this does is make these non-"Office" paper sizes available to applications. Note that you will need the latest drivers from HP to be able to set up custom sizes. Also, these custom sizes are now available from the sizes drop down list in the printer dialog box. According to Andrei Veselov at MI, MI searches for printer info in this order: 1) MI tries to set printer information for the printer info specified in a workspace 2) If it fails (it might fail because of papersize), MI tries to set it to MI Preferred printer 3) If 2 fails, then it goes to Windows default. I'm happier today, and I hope this also helps at least one other person. Gerald Kornelsen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
