RE: Printer question

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

If I recall correctly, XyWin (unless you use Printer Setup to use XyWrite
fonts only) will recognize any installed Windows system printers and Windows
system fonts, but you have to restart XyWin after adding them to the system.
Using XyWrite fonts only will limit you to the printers defined in the PP
table in XWSET.DFL. Currently I can use a local printer, a network printer
or PDF Factory from my networked computer. (Finagling the network printer
for XY4 is more involved but is not evidently an issue for Marge.)

Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Patricia M Godfrey [SMTP:pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, June 13, 2003 10:45 AM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: Printer question
>
> Marge asked me, off list, if this meant she could only use one printer
> with Xywin. I'm answering on list because this is, IMHO, a question of
> general interest. I don't think that's the case. I cannot test it right
> now, as I'm in the process of migrating everything from a corrupted
> Windows system (which has some unknown app using a bit of RAM that both
> XyDos and XyWin need, so neither will run) to a new system that is not
> fully set up yet (and the laptop, which has working XyDOS and Win, has a
> bug--inherent, I discover, to Windows95--that plays havoc with printing).
> But what I think is the case is that you have to have your printers set
> up first, then start a XyWin from which all printer references have been
> removed. XyWin then gets the printer refs from Windows. Certainly, when
> the current system was working, I "printed" from XyWin, using the Windows
> printer drivers, both to the USB multifunction and to a file, using the
> Postscript driver. And I printed to the dot matrix from XyDOS, using Xy's
> own driver.
> Patricia