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

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:15:44 -0700

No, but it is a first step.  Thank you
 
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However, I think Dick's objective is to graphically edit the resulting image file.  Is pdf a format recognized by graphic image editors?


Giovanni Flammia wrote:

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

 

 

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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.

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Richard E. Hoskins, PhD MPH
Faculdad Salud Publica
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Av Honorio Delgado No 430
Lima 31, Perú

 

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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
>
>
>



           
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