Hi Folks, I finally found a "workaround" to this problem. I switched the default printer to my husband's printer and then my layout template opened up for me. I just have to remember to change back the default to my printer when I'm done.
Thanks for all your help! Carol --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, but it is a first step. Thank you > > -- > Richard E. Hoskins, PhD MPH > Faculdad Salud Publica > Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia > Av Honorio Delgado No 430 > Lima 31, Perú > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > 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 > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 1:45 PM > To: [email protected] > 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. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/C5grlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Maptitude/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
