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In article <559@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:

   I was most impressed with Painter's Apprentice (authors Russell
   Nelson and Patrick Naughton), [...] but I can't get it to print.

   The doco says it's not crippleware,  so I'm wondering if the print
   option doesn't highlight (it stays in italics - if you've used
   Windows,  you know what I mean) because we use network printers (HP
   laserJet IID's).  I'm wondering if the program doesn't do a hardware
   check for the printer.

No, I wish I could do a hardware check for the printer.  Unfortunately,
there's no way for a program to interrogate the printer type, nor for
user to configure his system *once* for a printer.  Each and every program
needs to be told specially what your printer is, and Painter's Apprentice
is no exception.

Painter's Apprentice (PA) looks for a file called .../bin/paint.pri.  This
is just a copy of one of the other .pri files found in that directory.
I suggest that you copy the appropriate .pri file to paint.pri, as per
line 53 of PA.DOC.

If paint.pri isn't found, then the Print entry on the menu gets grayed out.
Same thing for the .ldi files used to load and save files.  If they're not
found, then Load and Save are grayed out.

BTW, I should mention the only bug in PA.  The default extension is
.IMG, so if you try to save a file without explicitly giving an
extension, you'll get a "IMG.LDI not found" error.  After I
developed the file routines in PA, I found out that there were already
two incompatible file formats that used the .IMG extension.  So, shortly
(too shortly!) before releasing it, I changed the .IMG to .IPA, but failed
to change the default...

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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])  Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
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