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Re: Custom size has been grayed out after upgraded to 10.6.5 --- fix available

2010-12-05 by Danny

--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Roy Harrington <roy@...> wrote:
>
> Your browser probably cached the old page.  Hit the refresh button --  in Safari
> its the circular arrow at the end of url address line.
> 
> Roy
> 
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Danny <dteitel102@...> wrote:
> > I went to the download page and don't see a 2.7.1 just 2.7.0.  Am I missing something?  is it somewhere else?  Or is the page not changed but the software fix applied under the old number.  I'd appreciate some enlightenment.
> > Thanks much in advance.
> > Danny Teitelbaum
> >
> > --- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield <list@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Many thanks for the fix Roy.  Working fine now printing custom sizes from LR, CS5, and Preview.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Carl
> >>
> >> On Dec 2, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Roy Harrington wrote:
> >>
> >> > I also found the CUPS 1.4.5 fix to at first work and later on stop working.
> >> >
> >> > I finally was able to trace through CUPS and figure out where the
> >> > problem arises.
> >> > Its a weird combination of the exact order things are done.  I'm not
> >> > about to fix
> >> > the OS but it turns out there's a simple way for QTR to just rearrange some data
> >> > and the problem goes away.   So I've made a new download 2.7.1 specifically
> >> > for this issue on Macs.  See:   http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRdownload.html
> >> > Its just a matter of installing this new version and if you've done a
> >> > lot of messing
> >> > around with the Quad printers I'd suggest Deleting and Re-creating them with the
> >> > printer/profile install scripts.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks to Walker for narrowing this down to cups in the new OSX.   If
> >> > you are one of the people
> >> > to go through Walker's CUPS fix, and you also happen to have old
> >> > PowerPC programs on your
> >> > machine, and they access printer info, there's a potential for a
> >> > program crash because of a missing
> >> > powerpc library.   Let me know if this happens.
> >> >
> >> > I'm pretty sure this fix will solve the custom sizes but let me know
> >> > if you have any trouble.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Roy
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Joel Conison <jcon77@> wrote:
> >> >> I followed Walters other post with more explanation and it worked. I had a power failure due to weather and when I restarted custom sizes was not available. I followed the same instructions, leaving Terminal app open and restarted (the same way I did the first time when it worked). Now custom sizes again is not available. By the way the printer was on. I did it again with the printer off & closed the Terminal app, then restarted. Again, custom sizes are not available.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any suggestions would be helpful.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks
> >> >> Joel
> >> >
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