jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/27/89)
I have a question about the Deskwriter and quick draw printers in general. I have a friend who has a Deskwriter (I have one also) who wants to use it with his paint package he got with his system. He has a SE with 20 MEG drive. The paint package he wants to use is FullPaint. When he tries to print with it he gets an error message that the "driver is not installed". Yet with other packages such as his wordprocessor the Deskwriter does fine. Is anyone out there familiar with Fullpaint??? Does it print in only postscript or some thing else and thus not work with quick draw type printers like the Deskwriter. I have never had any trouble with my Deskwriter and my own paint package (Superpaint). I am going to try his paint package with mine and see if I can spot the problem, but I was wondering if FullPaint does something different than using the printer you have choosen in the Chooser??? Russ Jacobson Illinois Geological Survey Champaign, IL 61820 217-244-2425
robertt@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Bob Taylor) (11/28/89)
FullPaint is one of the packages listed in the DeskWriter documentation as being "incompatible" with the DeskWriter. FullPaint came (someone from Ashton-Tate can correct me on this) as part of the deal when Ashton-Tate bought Ann-Arbor Softworks, but A-T has never revved it (it's still on 1.0). The problem is that FullPaint only recognizes LaserWriters and ImageWriters - which is all that existed for the Mac when FullPaint was released. Asthton-Tate would have to answer any questions about upgrades/ fixes. Bob Taylor DeskWriter Testing Coordinator /* As usual, these comments are mine and may or may not represent those of my employer */
jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/28/89)
Addendum to above:
I just tried Superpaint on my friends SE system with his Deskwriter and
it prints just fine. Checked over the original Fullpaint disk and in its
system folder it only had imagewriter and laserwriter drivers, no other
special drivers were present.
I tried it and for some reason it just refuses to recognize the deskwriter
driver, and says "Error, driver not found" when I try to print. All other
software I use does not have this trouble with the Deskwriter, but for
some reason the Fullpaint program does. Its manual is no help and other
than explaining about putting the imagewriter or laserwriter drivers in the
system folder gives you no information on what it does to recognize the
driver for the printer you use.
Russ Jacobson
Illinois Geological Surveylong@rainbo.enet.dec.com (Richard C. Long) (11/29/89)
In article <110300025@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes... [deleted] >[Fullpaint won't recognize Deskwriter driver] This is a complete wild guess, but have you tried renaming the Deskwriter driver to be Imagewriter? I don't know what that might break... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /'') /'' / | mcntsh::long -- or RAINBO -- | A day for firm /''\ /__ /__ | long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com | decisions!!!!! ----------------| ...!decwrl!mcntsh.enet.dec.com!long | Or is it?? Richard C. Long | long%mcntsh.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com |========================
robertt@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Bob Taylor) (11/29/89)
Renaming the DeskWriter driver won't do it - there is a resource called WDEV that contains an ID # for the device and that is what applications key on. Messing with this number is not reccomended, as it may not help FullPaint and will definitely mess you up on many more commonly used packages (e.g. Word 4.0) that look for the DeskWriter ID. bob taylor /* these comments are mine and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer */
Wataru.Ebihara@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Wataru Ebihara) (12/04/89)
> I tried it and for some reason it just refuses to recognize the > deskwriter driver, and says "Error, driver not found" when I try > to print. All other software I use does not have this trouble > with the Deskwriter, but for some reason the Fullpaint program > does. In the manual there was an update for all the applications that don't work with the DeskWriter and FullPaint 1.0 was one of them. I'll type in the rest of the list -- Full Paint 1.0 MacPaint (versions 1.4 and earlier) Red Ryder 10.3 Microphone II (version 2.0) The following don't print at 300 d8pi: HyperCard 1.2.1 Illustrator 88 (version 1.8.3) Digital Darkroom (version 1.0) Image Studio (version 1.5) The following doesn't use the DW printer's high quality fonts: CricketDraw (version 1.1) I'm not sure if any of this has changed or not since I got my printer. Does anyone else know? Wataru Internet ebihara-w@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu +--- Export 2.6 -- Wataru Ebihara via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200!Wataru.Ebihara INET: Wataru.Ebihara@f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG