On 25 Feb 2008, Roger Darlington wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2008, Dr Alan Leighton wrote:
>> In message <d7b08d764f.rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 Feb 2008, charles wrote:
>>>> In article <88e32c764f.rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> Roger Darlington <rogerarm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>>> I have Iyonix, RO 5.13, Ov Pro 2.77, Printers 1.72.
>>>>
>>>>> I have an Ov Pro file, mae with OvPro 2.77, which it will not print,
>>>>> giving an error 'Ov Pro has suffered an internal error, type=3'.
>>>>
>>>>> It does this if I try printing to PoScript, or my Canon Inkjet, so I
>>>>> don't think it is printer-driver related.
>>>>
>>>>> Strangely enough, OvPro will print all the other files I have fed it.
>>>>
>>>>> I have tried saving it out as a DDL file and re-loading it back into
>>>>> OvPro (after a re-boot) but it's always the same with this particular
>>>>> file: type=3 error.
>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> have you a very large picture in it? If so try proxying it.
>>
>>> No, no pictures at all.
>>> It is about 6 A4 pages long, and consists of text using only Homerton
>>> and Selwyn fonts.
>>
>>>>
>> I know it is extreme but export it as a Text file to EasiWriter then
>> return it as saved Text. That may do it.
>>
>
> That is extremist in the extreme: I'd lose all the colours, boldness,
> normal, homerton and selwyn settings. And I suspect that when I put
> all those settings back, consuming several hours work, it will still
> give type=3 or =5.
>
> I have discovered that in my example submitted, if I delete the first
> character (its in Selwyn font) then it WILL print (there then being no
> Selwyn characters in the document).
>
> This cannot, however, be the solution, because for the last 5 years I
> have printed documents like this, using Selwyn font, on my Iyonix
> without trouble.
>
> Why doesn't OvPro now like Selwyn font? It displays the Selwyn font in
> OvPro document on-screen perfectly well, but wont now print it?
>
> Very strange?
I've narrowed it down even further: I have discovered that OvPro
doesn't like printing Selwyn characters, but only if they are
top-bit-set-Selwyn characters.
It will print Homerton Top bit set characters. It will print Selwyn
characters with top-bit-unset.
Hmmm - even stranger.
Stranger still, Tech Writer (when printing top-bit-set-Selwyn
characters) doesn't crash the whole Iyonix, it just politely says
there's an error, and lets you get on with using the computer, which
OvPro fails to let you do: you have to re-boot!
I think it time to take this elsewhere: Archive-on-Line, as the error
doesn't seem to be restricted to OvPro (although OvPro does crash
irretrievably, whilst other programs don't).
Stranger still: it didn't used to be like this: my Iyonix would
happily print top-bit-set-Selwyn characters last year.
--
Cheers
Roger
Yesterday never goes.
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