Re: Printer help (again)

[John Negus johnanegus@xxxxxxxx]

Leslie Savan is wondering about getting XywriteIII+ (version 3.56) to
print under Windows Millennium or Windows 2000.

I haven't used those versions of Windows but in Windows in general there
are two ways of running Xy:

- one is in a `dos box' - while in Windows, you click on the Xy icon.
- the other is under dos - booting to Dos using either a true version of
dos or an emergency startup disk. Then running Xy from there.

In a Win dos box, it is Windows handling the output - whence the
difficulties with printing. Windows expects the app to supply it with
material to print in graphical, not text, format. (But one thing you
could try for simple jobs is loading (making default) the `generic'
Windows printer driver - which is a text-based one. If it is not listed
as one of your printers, you have to install it first, from the Windows
cd. This allows nothing but unvarnished text though - no bold or
changes of font or pitch.)

If you boot to dos then run Xy, it is Xy's printer driver, not Windows',
which runs the printer - like in the old days. (If you've booted from a
floppy, you may have to tinker a bit - with dos Paths if nothing else.)
If you get this working, the question then is whether your spanking new
printer recognises the old text-based standards - Pcl and so forth.
(Cheaper printers tend not to.)

Theoretically, a way round all this could be to use a PostScript printer
and printer driver - which might overcome any or all of these printing
problems. But I haven't tried it.

John


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