[softwarelist] Re: Help I mega stuck

In message <1be032cb4e.alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
I had to push the reset button to get the computer back.
It can still be the printer "blocking" e.g. suppose it is out of paper then the computer will sit there waiting for the printer to say it is OK to send more data.
You can configure RISC OS printing to take place in the background which stops this effect. Requires both the printer driver and Ovation Pro to be set correctly. See printer choices in Ovation Pro and the relevant section in the OP manual. 



Try printing to a different printer (using a different printer def),
such as PostScript or SPrinter and seeing if it completes the printing.

Hey I only have one printer!
You can install as many printer drivers as you like. SPrinter, is free from my web site and produces Sprites (so no associated hardware), and it is often useful to have a PostScript driver installed and set up to print to file.
For example if you'd not got the thing to print, another suggestion would have been to print the document to a PostScript file and then try loading the file into GhostScript. 



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