Digital BW, The Print

That isn't the point. In either batch mode or named pipe mode, QTRgui sets
up and passes all the parameters. You don't have to type anything. The
difference is how the System runs the programs. In batch file mode, QTRgui
creates a batch file and then the Windows Command window processes it. 
 
This leads to two potential problems. First, ligatures and accents are
stripped from file names. I know that this won't mean anything to native
English speakers, but our international colleagues find this a bit
restrictive.
 
Second, QTRgui can't tell what is happening on the run for each program. So,
if you get a failure in the printing program the other two programs may not
notice and just stay around in memory.
 
Named pipes lets QTRgui pass parameters without any interference. It also
lets it monitor the programs, report errors, and terminate programs as
necessary if there are problems.
 
You should not use the batch file method unless the named pipe method does
not work for you. And then, you should report that named pipes don't work
and describe you system configuration, etc. so that maybe we can find out
why. In theory, the only difference between the two methods is how the
programs are run, so if one works, both *should* work. If one doesn't work,
we need to find out what the difference was.
 
-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: donbga [mailto:dstevenbryant@...] 
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 9:10 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: The latest version om QuadTone RIP 2.1d, anyone
tried it?



You can print without the batch files but it would be quite tedious 
to do for each print as you would have to type in a rather long 
command line which could possibly be longer than the command 
processor will allow from stdin.

In short just use the batch file method, I can't think of why you 
wouldn't want to.

Don Bryant





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