[iyonix-support] Re: Iyonix PC for sale on ebay

In message of 24 Sep, Roger Foden <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <4507fbe34f.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > In message of 24 Sep, Chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> You can't print to a postscript printer from NetSurf via Printers,
> >> so...
> 
> > Oh yes you can!
> 
> Please tell us how you do it.
> 
> The Iyonix won't print direct from Netsurf due to discrepancies in  
> Printers 1.72
> 
> Printers can be upgraded via the ROOL downloads to Printers 1.73 and 
> this provides printing direct from Netsurf.
> 
>  _BUT_ unless there have been improvements/changes in the last few 
> months:

I learn abot how to do this on April 4th of this year.  Is that in the
last few months?

> 
> It does not work with postscript printers.

But it does!

> There are other problems: OvationPro bombs with a type 5 when one 
> attempts to print top-bit-set characters in some fonts; David Pilling 
> has investigated and reports that the problem is in Printers, not 
> OvPro. EasiWriter printing is unreliable (to be polite).
> 
> I've been down the above road and retreated back to the safe ground of 
> exporting Netsurf pages as Draw, then printing the Drawfile, which can 
> easily be edited to remove unwanted dross.

Agree about the use of Draw and I do much the same with some ridiculous
pages.

The core to printing direct to Postscript is to update to the latest
version of printers from ROOL and then to get Gutenprint going, which
may cost you a few sheckels.  Martin Wuerthner put us on to this.  I
think there was some complication about the printers upgrade but do not
have a reference for it and cannot now remember exactly what I did.

There are two gotchas with Gutenprint:

(1) do not put spaces in any path or any any printer name.

(2) Ensure you have made the printer _active_ within Gutenprint.  Doing
    this on the printers menu fromthe iconba is not enough.

I put some of what I found on these two items on the RISC OS Printers
mailing list on FreeLists.  It was, as above, on April 4th so you may be
able to find the archives at:

  http://www.freelists.org/list/riscos-printing/

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