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

On 25 Sep 2008  Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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/

"Error: no such list". You have to take off the last slash to get the 
page.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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