LaserDirect and Risc OS 3.10

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2 total messages Started by Jason M Banham Fri, 30 Oct 1992 15:37

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Author: Jason M Banham
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 15:37

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Greetings,

A quick mail on hopefully a known (fixable) problem.

This afternoon I was attempting to print out a document to my laserdirect
(Canon LPB-4) and when it reached the final page my machine locked up!

No error, nothing ... so I tried it again and the same thing, complete lock
up.

Having seen similar problems with a dodgy font I tried printing the diagram
used in the final page from !Draw and you've guessed it ... BARF!

So, what was causing this?
Well the drawfile used the Homerton font (as found in RO3.10) and when I 
replaced this with a SwissB substitute it then printed ok.

What bugs me is that Homerton is part of Risc OS 3.10 and shouldn't do this
or is there a yummy bug in CCs printer driver?

Does anyone know the latest version?
I think I've got v.2.05 (could be wrong though)


Cheers for your help (in advance) ;-)


Jayce.

--

"I may be a shallow guy, but a shallow guy with a great ass!" - Cat, Red Dwarf

Jason "AEON FLUX" Banham               Internet: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk       
					         aangel@sequent.co.uk

   ***** Acorn rep on StudentSoft/Archimedes owner/Computer Scientist *****

Re: LaserDirect and Risc OS 3.10

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Author: Dick Wallin
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 08:17

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In article <Bwxy2n.1Dr@brunel.ac.uk> cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Jason M Banham) writes:

>Greetings,
>
>A quick mail on hopefully a known (fixable) problem.
>
>This afternoon I was attempting to print out a document to my laserdirect
>(Canon LPB-4) and when it reached the final page my machine locked up!
>So, what was causing this?
>Well the drawfile used the Homerton font (as found in RO3.10) and when I 
>replaced this with a SwissB substitute it then printed ok.
>What bugs me is that Homerton is part of Risc OS 3.10 and shouldn't do this
>or is there a yummy bug in CCs printer driver?

I believe that the problem with this is not CC's printer Driver as such but
CC's font manager (ie Fastext) which does not understand RISC OS 3 fonts in
ROM on your version.

Solution 1: switch off fastext and it will probably work.

Solution 2: I believe that CC have updated Fastext in the latest versions.
Sorry but I haven't got the version number.

>Jayce.

Dick Wallin

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