Having got a workaround for the "grey background" printing problem
for the Mac, I've now discovered a different printing problem that
relates to Windows alone and not the Mac!
I'm using MetaCard 2.3.2 build 6 for both Mac and PC. The PC is a
P-III 700 laptop with 128Mb RAM running Windows 98 SE and the printer
is an HP LaserJet 6MP with HP drivers.
I have a stack which provides a PrintPreview that contains a series
of cards that are to be printed as separate pages. I'm using the
following type of sequence:
open printing
repeat with c = 1 to maxPages
go to card c
print card c
end repeat
close printing
I developed the stack on the Mac and apart from the "grey background"
problem, it seemed to be working OK. When I tried the stack under
Windows I discovered a problem. It seems that I have to use an
"answer printer" and the user must click OK for the printer to work
OK. If I do this once, run a printout session and then try to do
another printout session without using "answer printer", it gets
stuck in some form of busy wait. It's as if the printer software
needs to be reset each time before opening printing again, even
though I've done a previous "close printing". The only "printer
reset" I know of is "answer printer".
Obviously, this is tedious since it means my user having to at least
OK a printer dialog for every printout instead of just setting it up
once.
A further problem I've found is that I can't "open printing" from my
main stack, open my printpreview sub-stack to do the "print card c"
and then use the mainstack to do the "close printing" after the
sub-stack has closed after the last card has been printed. It seems
that the open, print, close must all be in the same stack - is this a
definite "feature" or an anomaly?
Any thoughts/suggestions please?
Cheers
Peter
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Peter Reid
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