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RE: [Digital BW] QTR printing directly to Windows printer

2004-12-23 by Stephen Billard

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Haber [mailto:matt@...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:03 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] QTR printing directly to Windows printer
> 
> 
> 
> stephen--
> 
> this brings things a bit closer to reality for Win98 users 
> (there must 
> be at least 2 of us out here). I think the remaining 
> limitation is the 
> reliance of QRT on batch files. Win98 seems to have a limit on 
> parameters passed to batch files (i'm surprised anyone paid 
> attention to batch files after win95!). Perhaps there is a 
> way that Roy 
> can tweak QTR? I'm ever hopeful.

Getting rid of the batch files is on my list, just lower priority than the
new release and getting rid of the requirement for networking.

> 
> An issue that seems to be platform independent is that the I was in a 
> weird image select/printer select cycle when I used the buttons; i 
> was able to get things moving by using the menu bar.

Interesting. There is no difference in the code between using the buttons or
the menu. I no longer have access to a Windows 98 based system, so it will
be pure luck if we get things working.

> 
> -matt
>
>

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