RE: [Maptitude] Msg: "No printer installed" How can I install it?

[Giovanni Flammia]

As a work around to the missing printer problem, you can try to install a PDF printer driver. There is one free for download at www.primopdf.com   Set that PDF printer driver to be your default printer, and Maptitude will use it as the printer. Printing to it will create a PDF file.  That should work in an airplane.   Giovanni     From: Maptitude@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Maptitude@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 1:45 PM To: Maptitude@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Maptitude] Msg: "No printer installed" How can I install it?   It seems that Maptitude could get all that info from the computer and not from the printer. I use all kinds of software that allows me to prepare files that are to be printed later.  I frequently have to work with Maptitude away from a printer and being able to prepare a layout out be a nice to have feature. It is a bit annoying to be working on an airplane and one cannot make a layout.   Maybe there is a way to fool Maptitude?   I would like to be able to export the layout to some format that would allow me to open it in a word processor or drawing program where I could add items that are not availble in the layout feature. The layout feature of all GIS software I am aware of is pretty limited, so if one could export what you can do in Maptitude to a format that can be read by another package which is capable of real graphic construction, then Caliper could forget about Layout feature development. -- Richard E. Hoskins, PhD MPH Faculdad Salud Publica Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Av Honorio Delgado No 430 Lima 31, Perú   -------------- Original message -------------- When you use a layout, Maptitude sends a message to the chosen printer requesting information (such as fonts and paper sizes supported) that gets used in setting up the way the map get printed.  If the printer doesn't respond, then Maptitude therefore doesn't get the information that it needs to configure the layout properly for that particular printer. I can see how no response from the printer would indicate that no printer was installed.  Look at this step as Maptitude internally doing a "Print Preview" to make sure the layout will print as intended. Printing a map without a layout is different since no setup information is required from the printer and the map gets sent directly to the printer for processing.  You might try printing a layout-formatted map to a PDF and then printing the PDF to your printer.  I know this is an extra step for you but you might find this method successful.   --- carol121947 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on page 37 of the 4.7 manual and I am trying to do the layout > tutorial.  I click on file-new and then layout, but I get a box that > says "no printer installed".  I have no clue how to install the > printer.  There are no directions in the help file.  I have a printer > that has been working fine for other maps.  It just won't work for > layouts.  > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > Carol > > >             ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs   YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "Maptitude" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.