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Printing to "PDF-Exchange" doesn't work 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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I have a utility called "PDF Exchange Lite" that shows up as a printer under Windows XP Pro; it renders the output as a PDF file. When I select this printer in AbsoluteTelnet for pass-through printing, nothing happens -- no errors and no output. The printer works when printing from MSWord, Wordpad, IE7, etc..
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Steve Wyatt
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Re: Printing to "PDF-Exchange" doesn't work 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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A further detail: The utility I referred to is actually called "PDF-XChange Lite 3.0".
SW
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Re: Printing to "PDF-Exchange" doesn't work 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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Steve,
Look at Options->Properties->VTOptions in the 'passthu printing' section. Do you have 'print direct to printer' enabled? If so, you probably want to turn that off. With this option enabled (the default), Absolute tries to bypass the Windows printer drivers and stream the data directly to the printer. In your case, since there is no *real* printer, there's no telling where the data is going.
Try disabling that option and post back here with your results.
Brian
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Re: Printing to "PDF-Exchange" doesn't work 3 Years, 3 Months ago
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Brian:
Thank you for the response.
Once again you nailed it; I followed your advice and the PDF-print is working.
Steve Wyatt
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Re: Printing to "PDF-Exchange" doesn't work 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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Brian:
We are now trying to use pass-through printing to print tabular reports that were previously printed on 14 7/8"(wide) x 11 (high)" paper - generally these reports have line lengths up to 132 characters per line. Here also we are trying to print to the PDFXChange printer. We get most of the data in the resulting PDF file, but all of the characters after character position 101 on each line have been truncated.
On the other hand, I can select "Send To File" in AT properties, then print the same report and save it to a file. I can then open that file in Notepad, do a File...Print and select the PDFXChange printer, and in the resulting PDF file the right-most characters are not truncated, and the output is fine.
Can you help me out?
Steve Wyatt
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Re: Printing to "PDF-Exchange" doesn't work 3 Years, 2 Months ago
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I'm still looking at this. The problem here is that the passthru printing is very dumb. It doesn't have any concept of paper size, orientation, etc... It just dumps data to the printer and is probably defaulting the width of an 8x11 sheet of standard paper.
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