[WinPrnDev] Re: Install: Operation could not be completed (error 0x00003eb) - Vista SP1
- From: "Rune Moberg" <jjflash@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: winprndev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:05:20 +0100
I thought the width and resolutions were configured in the gpd file...
I will research the .gpd file more. Deleting the "*Feature: PaperSize"
section allowed me to install the printer, but any output would fail.
Simply replacing the .gpd file in the spool\drivers directory with the
old .gpd file repaired it.
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Rune
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Wilner, Manfred <mwilner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This doesn't sound like a printable origin problem more like a physical
> width and application related issue.
> How do you define the width and the resolution?
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> Maybe you should also research the GPD documentation a bit more to find
> out what you can and can't do.
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> \Manfred
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> Subject: [WinPrnDev] Re: Install: Operation could not be completed
> (error 0x00003eb) - Vista SP1
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> Good question. Why did I start messing around? :)
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> Two apps are unable to print properly. Their margins end up covering
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> up parts of the text. (cannot see the rightmost column)
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> So, I wrote a test which prints a rectangle plus two lines X from
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> corner to corner. This covered the entire page, as it should.
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> GetDeviceCaps(DC, HORZRES) returns the correct value.
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> Then I tried GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, PHYSICALWIDTH) and this
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> returns a value larger than HORZRES (+310 dots or so).
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> This is different from MS' OfficeWriter driver.
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> My driver is based on the DDK's Bitmap sample. I found nothing in the
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> source files, but those values in the .gpd file made me curious. And
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> that is when I started playing around. :(
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> --
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> Rune
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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Wilner, Manfred <mwilner@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Rune,
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>> I am glad that you are able to install the driver again.
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>> What is it you actually want to accomplish?
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>> Do you have an A4 / Ltr size printer but want to change the Printable
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>> Origin?
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>> Can you please explain?
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>> \Manfred
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