7:51 p.m.
I'm getting the "2illegal control character - printing cancelled"
error when trying to print a page from Netsurf (r4061) using RISC OS
5.13. Can anybody tell me what to do exactly to rectify this?
Andrew
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7:58 p.m.
On 30 Mar 2008 Andrew <aw29009(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm getting the "2illegal control character - printing
cancelled"
error when trying to print a page from Netsurf (r4061) using RISC OS
5.13. Can anybody tell me what to do exactly to rectify this?
Nothing much, I'm afraid. RISC OS 5.** printing is broken in this
respect. I'm sure someone will be along in a moment to explain
further.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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9:10 p.m.
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:58:36 +0100, Dr Peter Young <pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk>
wrote:
On 30 Mar 2008 Andrew <aw29009(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting the "2illegal control character - printing cancelled"
> error when trying to print a page from Netsurf (r4061) using RISC OS
> 5.13. Can anybody tell me what to do exactly to rectify this?
Nothing much, I'm afraid. RISC OS 5.** printing is broken in this
respect. I'm sure someone will be along in a moment to explain
further.
It works fine with non-PostScript printers, providing you have a version of
PDriverDP 4.54 or later. This is available on ROOL's site. See the archives
of this list for further details.
Certainly, this whole episode has demonstrated quite clearly that my
efforts in this regard have been wasted. It appears that very few people
actually use non-PostScript printers in conjunction with RO5.
I see from the pages of Archive magazine that there are apparently issues
with the new drivers and Artworks. It would be nice if someone actually
reported this to ROOL, as I'm sure they'd want to know about it.
Complaining about things on mailing lists certainly isn't going to bring
issues with ROOL components to the attention of those best placed to be
able to do something about it. ROOL have a bug tracker. Please use it.
John.
10:36 p.m.
In message <84cbf9f369cbfe5755813091ba0c989a(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>
John-Mark Bell <jmb(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:.
It works fine with non-PostScript printers, providing you have a version of
PDriverDP 4.54 or later. This is available on ROOL's site. See the archives
of this list for further details.
Certainly, this whole episode has demonstrated quite clearly that my
efforts in this regard have been wasted. It appears that very few people
actually use non-PostScript printers in conjunction with RO5.
I see from the pages of Archive magazine that there are apparently issues
with the new drivers and Artworks. It would be nice if someone actually
reported this to ROOL, as I'm sure they'd want to know about it.
Complaining about things on mailing lists certainly isn't going to bring
issues with ROOL components to the attention of those best placed to be
able to do something about it. ROOL have a bug tracker. Please use it.
My printer AFAIK is not a postscript one but I've downloaded the ROOL
limited archive having seen a previous posting. My question is what do
I do with it now, there's just a collection of directories. Is it
necessary to unplug modules for example in a similar way that Toolbox
has to be unplugged to get some things to work?
Andrew
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9:20 a.m.
In article <7dfe56884f.Andrew(a)no.reply>, Andrew <aw29009(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
In message <84cbf9f369cbfe5755813091ba0c989a(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>
John-Mark Bell <jmb(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:.
[snip]
>
My printer AFAIK is not a postscript one but I've downloaded the
ROOL limited archive having seen a previous posting. My question
is what do I do with it now, there's just a collection of
directories. Is it necessary to unplug modules for example in a
similar way that Toolbox has to be unplugged to get some things to
work?
My understanding is to first download the binaries-two.zip where you
will find Printers V1.73.
Make a copy of !Printers (ADFS::HardDisc4.$.Printing). This is
important - in case anything goes awry.
Then drag the copy of !Printers from the binaries-two.zip over your
existing copy to upgrade.
The module (PDriverDP) is the important one for correct NS printing and
is contained in the Printing archive (all-bin-2007-11-15.zip). Therefore
drag this skeleton copy of !Printers over your copy of !Printers V1.73.
NS printing should now work.
Regards
Richard
9:39 p.m.
In message <4f8891fa37riscos(a)gotadsl.co.uk>
Richard Ashbery <riscos(a)gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> My printer AFAIK is not a postscript one but I've downloaded the
> ROOL limited archive having seen a previous posting. My question
> is what do I do with it now, there's just a collection of
> directories. Is it necessary to unplug modules for example in a
> similar way that Toolbox has to be unplugged to get some things to
> work?
My understanding is to first download the binaries-two.zip where you
will find Printers V1.73.
Make a copy of !Printers (ADFS::HardDisc4.$.Printing). This is
important - in case anything goes awry.
Then drag the copy of !Printers from the binaries-two.zip over your
existing copy to upgrade.
The module (PDriverDP) is the important one for correct NS printing and
is contained in the Printing archive (all-bin-2007-11-15.zip). Therefore
drag this skeleton copy of !Printers over your copy of !Printers V1.73.
NS printing should now work.
That does the trick thanks.
Andrew
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9:57 p.m.
In article <c58948884f.pnyoung(a)pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Dr Peter Young
<pnyoung(a)ormail.co.uk> wrote:
On 30 Mar 2008 Andrew <aw29009(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting the "2illegal control character - printing
cancelled"
> error when trying to print a page from Netsurf (r4061) using RISC
> OS 5.13. Can anybody tell me what to do exactly to rectify this?
Nothing much, I'm afraid. RISC OS 5.** printing is broken in
this
respect. I'm sure someone will be along in a moment to explain
further.
I've been through this recently. Upgrade Printers by downloading the
latest release from RISC OS Open.
Thanks go to John-Mark Bell who reported............
"This can be found in "all-bin-2007-11-15.zip" from
http://riscosopen.co.uk/content/downloads/risc-os-tarballs"
"Note that the !Printers in that zip file is not complete -- you'll
need to merge it with an existing !Printers 1.73."
Paul Vigay also reported........
"Having said that, I've encountered weird redraw problems with
!Printers 1.73 so I've gone back to the previous version to avoid
crashing the machine."
If you can get this to work only portrait printing in NS is possible
- so wide pages are cut off. I think DrawPrint - designed specially
for Iyonix users needing NS printing is still probably the best way
to go.
Good luck and let us know how you get on.
Richard.
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