Re: [icon-users] Cannot save as PDF
- From: Kevin Wells <kevinwells@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:08:38 GMT
In message <4eddb0524f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>In message <a9a0ad524f.Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Kevin Wells <kevinwells@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
[snip]
>>
>> Inside !Sparkplug is a data file called OPTIONS, shift double click on
>> that, and if you see a _ change it into a / and that should stop
>> .extensions being turned into _extensions instead of /extensions .
>
>Thanks. That explains why my suggestion of using the default Options
>file did indeed solve the problem. So, Russel's Options file seems to
>have contained the old "_" setting, which was once SparkPlug's default
>extension character. It remains a mystery how that outdated setting
>got into Russel's copy of 2.28 because the copy from the web site has
>the correct "/" setting and as far as I can see SparkPlug does not
>have any user interface for setting the extension character.
This was mention on another mailing list a few months back and it stayed
in my mind.
>
>Ah, now I see! The "Options" file in the 2.28 download is actually
>dated 2005 while version 2.28 itself is dated 2002. So, David Pilling
>issued version 2.28 with the old "_" setting in 2005 and reissued it
>with the same version number in 2005 with the corrected Options file.
>That means that users cannot really find out easily whether they have
>a working copy of SparkPlug or not. Just checking the date of the
>Options file is not enough since you could have started from the old
>pre-2005 version and saved your options in 2006, but you would still
>have the outdated "_" setting in your Options file. And since there is
>no user interface for setting the extension character that makes it
>really difficult to make sure that things are correct. :-(
>
>Martin
The SparkPlug supplied with the A9home comes with "_" setting instead of
the "/", I usually use Infozip
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