Re: [ARMini-support] Printing from ArtWorks fails frequently

  • From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:51:38 GMT

On 16 Mar 2015  Alan P Dawes <alan.dawes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <72c5f2a454.iyojohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    John Rickman Iyonix <rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Chris Johnson  wrote

>>> In article <8f9257a354.iyojohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>    John Rickman Iyonix <rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> The address &FC19A04C is alays the same.

>>> Have you done a *where on this address?

>>> On both my Iyonix and PandaRO it is in the Basic module.

>> On my ARMiniX it is in BufferManager according to Reporter's where
>> menu option.

> Lets go back to your original post in which you said

> "I have started to use RiscOSM more recently but have hit a serious
> problem in trying to print the maps."

> but then go on to talk about the errors you are getting from printing the
> maps from !Artworks. When you print from !RiscOSM directly (rather than
> converting to drawfile and saving into !Artworks) do you get the same
> errors?

> You then say
> "Some three out of four attempts to print fail"
> So do you mean that 3 out of 4 different files fail to print from Artworks
> or that if you try to print the same file 4 times then it will print
> correctly on one occasion?

> You then give the error messages:

>   "Error outside ArtWorks abort on data transfer  at &FC19A04C"
> The printer prints:
>   ERROR syntaxerror
>   OFFENDING COMMAND --nostringval--
>   STACK: radialfill
> "
> You have found that the abort is from an address in the BufferManager
> which possibly suggests that the buffer created for the rendering of the
> file for printing is being corrupted or truncated but have eliminated
> Aemulor from causing this. To help find out if it is in the redering of
> the file for printing can you try printing using David Pillings Sprint
> definition file from:
> http://www.davidpilling.net/free.html
> It instals as a printer driver in !printers as normal using the normal
> printers but produces a sprite.

> I don't use !Artworks but wonder if you can save out as a drawfile and
> print that successfully via !Draw?

FWIW I have no problem whatsoever printing Draw files exported from 
RiscOSM using Sine Nomine's free DrawPrint. The RiscOSM help file 
recommends doing this.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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