Ticket #177 (Duplicate)Thu Sep 25 10:34:19 UTC 2008

Problems with Printers 1.74

Details by Tim Powys-Lybbe (200):

Here’s my notes from trying to prove that, yes, I really can do postscript prining from netSurf on my Iyonix:

Trials to get Printer going using 1.74 and print from Netsurf
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1. Old version was 1.71 in !Boot – !Run configuration, but using
later components and said 1.72 on the icon bar.

2. Changed !Boot – !Run to 1.74 (which I had downloaded from ROOL).

3. Rebooted Iyonix and check to see if working OK on (a) PS and
(b) Canon A2 printing.

4. Problems:
(a) Error message on Boot:
Printers: Modules.RemPrbMsgs not found
And it was not there either
So downloaded the v. latest version from
http://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/des…
called it 1.74b and tried again.
(b) With 1.74b I got this error message:
Boot.^.Printers_1_74b.Run not found
Quite true, all those sort of file were missing: Boot, Run,
Sprite, RunImage.
So I dropped the new version of 1.74 on top of the original
1.74 and re-booted.
Interestingly the ReadMe file did not mention this
complication though it did say that 1.72 was the last stable
release.
© Then back to problem (a) so copied in from 1.73
(d) Then module PDumperCX not found, so copied this from 1.72
Finally Printers 1.74 started! Now for testing:
(i) Printed a PDF to PS OK.
(ii) Printed from NetSurf worked OK!!! (Slow)

Note, finally, that I have yet to test the BJC 5500 printing as I’m not sure that the new module by J Ballance will be there.