Re: New PostGhost and Xy2PDF frames - XyShell NOT Required

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Patricia M Godfrey  on Sun, 12 Dec
2004 15:18:59 -0500

Patricia:

The error PRompt for Xy2PDF is misleading; my apologies -- I will change it.
The correct syntax is:

Xy2PDF outputfilename
 do NOT add ".PDF" extension
 writes to *current d:\path only* -- do NOT prepend a "D:\PATH\"
For example, if the input file was MYFILE.XY, you might command:

Xy2PDF MYFILE

The result will be MYFILE.PDF in your current directory. Maybe I should change
the behavior to *require* an extension and d:\path\... But I figured ".PDF"
was implicit; and when I wrote this (and PostGhost), I must have been in a
curmudgeonly (or just lazy) mood, insisting on the current d:\dir only.

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Concerning TYP:

> TYP I cannot use on this machine, since the
> printer is attached to a USB port, and 98 won't let one remap...

The *whole point* of TYP is to print to USB printers and other printers
ordinarily unrecognized by, and inaccessible to, XyWrite! The operating system
shouldn't make any difference. You don't remap anything (who mentioned
"remap"?). If Win98 can print to that USB printer *at all*, via the standard
Windows "Print" dialog (the one you see when you print from any mousy Windows
GUI program), then TYP can print to that printer too from XyWrite. Your REG
variables are fine. I'd make the tiny suggestion that, once you confirm that
TYP works, and assuming that you only have one printer, or that you _always_
(or almost always) will print from XyWrite to a single printer, and further
assuming that this printer (if you have more than one printer device, a
category which would include say a fax software driver, or the "Generic / Text"
driver, i.e. it's possible to have multiple "printers" according to M$, but
only one printer that prints to paper) is the "Default" printer according to
the Windows Printers panel (the panel at Start ==> Settings == Printers, or in
Control Panel), then I would change
	GsPrnDev=mswinpr2 dialog
to
	GsPrnDev=mswinpr2 default
That way, it just prints "hands off" -- no "Print" dialog that you have to
click on. (Although, if your USB printer has its own bunch of settings, and
you've asked it to "Preview" or something like that, then you will still get
the preview of your printed page that you need to "OK" before the machine will
push paper.)

Try these things. What make/model printer do you have, specifically? Look, I
don't want to be too cocky, because I confess (in 4pt. type) that I haven't
tried TYP on a Win9x machine yet, but... it's just _got_ to work.

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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