Apparently either the latest versions of Ghostscript, or new Epson and Lexmark printers, are playing hob with the U2 routines typ and xy2pdf.
Here are the texts of the batch files created (but not deleted, as they should have been) by both routines:
File D:\XY4\JARKH9R1.BAT (from running xy2pdf) @echo off set GS_LIB=C:\GS\GS8.70\BIN\..\lib;C:\GS\GS8.70\BIN\..\..\fonts;start /min /wait C:\gs\gs8.70\bin\gswin32C.exe -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=D:\XY4\test.PDF -c save pop -f D:\XY4\FO.PS
start /min GoXy.EXE "GSview Registration" q 1000 /CHR(13)
start /max /wait C:\GS\gHOSTGUM\GSVIEW\GSVIEW32.EXE D:\XY4\test.PDF
GoXy.EXE "{self}"
del D:\XY4\JARKH9R1.BAT
file d:\XY4\2hgcgeyf.bat (from running typ)
@start /min C:\gs\gs8.70\bin\gswin32C.exe
C:\gs\gs8.70\bin\setup.ps -dBATCH -q -dNOPAUSE D:\XY4\FO.PS
fo.ps was in fact created, so one could call that in GSVIEW, convert to PDF, and print thus. But what is preventing the U2 routines from completing normally?
My first thought was that I had updated both Ghostscript and GSView, and the version numbers no longer matched. But I checked XyWWWEb.reg, and the relevant stanzas read:
[Ghostscript] ;d:\path\GSWIN32C.EXE Ghostscript_EXE_Win32=C:\gs\gs8.70\bin\gswin32C.exe Ghostscript_EXE_OS/2= Ghostscript_EXE_*nix= ;GsPrnDev=mswinpr2 dialog GsPrnDev=mswinpr2 default ;GsPrnDev=ljet4 WinPrinter= ;d:\path\GSVIEW32.EXE GSView_Win32=C:\GS\gHOSTGUM\GSVIEW\GSVIEW32.EXE GSView_OS/2= GSView_*nix= ; And a directory listing of c:\gs\gs8.70\bin\*.exe yields: GSWIN32C EXE GSWIN32 EXE And one of C:\GS\gHOSTGUM\GSVIEW\*.exe yields GSPRINT EXE GSVIEW32 EXE GVWGS32 EXE UNINSTGS EXEThe only thing I could not find was a subddir anywhere named \fonts, which appears to be referenced in JARKH9R1.BAT.
It is also true that both of my new printers pop up screens when printing from Windows apps. The Epson (Stylus NX415) has to tell me to use Genuine Epson Ink; the Lexmark (X36050) thinks it's a modem (that was partly my fault: it's USB and as I have only 3 USB ports on my Netbook, I have to swap the printer and the "modem"--actually an Evdo cellular AirCard. So the printer keeps try to access the Internet, which it cannot do, because there's no connection, because no modem installed, when I'm printing; but I have to let ZoneAlarm allow it, or it won't print.)
These screens cannot pop up when Xy is running (not full-screen, though I could probably get it on the Netbook, because XyWin at least loads on that; haven't tried doing anything with it). Could that be gumming up the works?
I don't think it's Vista (actually, the Netbook is running XP Home), because I'm fairly sure I was printing to my old Epson from the Vista laptop before that printer died.
Has anyone any ideas? -- Patricia M. Godfrey priscamg@xxxxxxxxxx
