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K. B. wrote:
> Am Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:36:55 schrieb Victor Bien 
> <nospam.vbien@attglobal.net>: 
> 
> 
>>    When you click on print you just get a popup saying, "There are no
>>printers defined".
>>
>>    I've asked this question at PMView's site but Peter Nielsen can't
>>help me.
>>
>>    My PMView 2000 is ver 2.32.  OS/2 is Warp 4 + FP15.  I did not have
>>this trouble with my older machine - Warp 4 + FP14.  I have deinstalled 
>>it and reinstalled (successfully.  When I posted my query at PMView's 
>>site I was having trouble reinstalling.  This problem has gone away).  I 
>>have removed my printer object (the main one printing to a Lexmark 310 
>>and reinstalled using Lexmark drivers dated in 2001.  The actual driver 
>>is a version of IBMPCL5.drv.  I did not remove other print objects from 
>>Connections.  The other print objects are Faxprint, DOS printer (uses 
>>IBMNull.drv) and Postscript.  PMView suggests deinstalling a print 
>>object and reinstalling stating that in some cases this fixed the 
>>problem.  In my case it did not.
>>
>>   Has anyone else experience this?  Ideas to resolve?
> 
> 
> I remember to have had a similar problem long time ago. It was not 
> sufficient to merely remove the printer objects. I had to delete all 
> printer drivers (see settings page, click on the printer driver icon).
> I can no more remember how to remove the last one because you have to 
> select a different driver for the actual printer object to unlock the 
> driver...
>  
> 
> Freundliche Gr��e
> 
> Klaus
> 
   Following this suggestion I got PMView printing!  This work also 
fixed another rather subtle problem but more of that below.  OS/2's 
printing subsystem comes across as a strange beast!

   I found that all my printer drivers could be deleted except the 
"FxPrint.fax" "driver" (there was no such filename as well) which could 
not be removed even after deleting the Fax print object and further even 
deleting "FxPrint" under PM_Devices with Inimaint did not make any 
difference.  Moreover the icon did not look anything like the blue and 
white icon associated with PMFax's FxPrint.drv.  Deleting the folder 
D:\OS2\DLL\FXPRINT and restarting did not make any difference.

   I pressed on despite not being able to delete the remaining fxprinter 
driver icon with D:\OS2\DLL\FXPRINT not present, on reinstalling 
FxPrint, using PMFax 3's driver and my Lexmark driver PMView stopped 
giving the above error message and presented the desired printing 
dialogue box and I could print!  It would register all further installed 
printers except an object I call DOS which uses the IBMNull driver to 
allow WinOS2 programs to print (IBMNull allows WinOS2 and DOS printer 
drivers to control the printer.  It just passes every byte straight 
thru).  Does PMView recognise that, it being an OS/2 program, would make 
no sense to use the IBMNull print object?

   PMView's link to the printer objects seemed to be fragile.  During my 
cut and try experiments, when I deleted a printer object (not the DOS 
one which made no difference regardless) and recreated it, it became 
inaccessible to PMView!  The only way to make all of the print objects 
available again was to delete the lot and start again!

   The subtle problem I mentioned above was that programs that print 
thru FxPrint would default to certain standard settings away from what I 
wanted: letter size (vs A4), LPT emulation to IBM Proprinter X24E (vs 
Off).  When say CopyShop printed to fax I'd get a page image in PMFax 
about 25 mm long with nothing else, i.e. garbage.  Each time the program 
was restarted I'd have to manually set the printer settings.  This had 
to be done even though the settings in the fxprinter object were set 
correctly.