defaultFolder is changed by printer drivers

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 11 17:38:43 EST 2003


--- Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 11, 2003, at 1:10 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
> 
> > <http://www.verypdf.com/pdfcamp/pdfcamp.htm>
> 
> 
> > It writes the PDF file OK, but then my otherwise
> well behaved app 
> > starts generating errors. The errors come from my
> revclips external.
> 
> OK found the problem: the PDFCamp printer driver is
> changing the 
> working directory, so after printing using that
> driver "the 
> defaultFolder" has changed to wherever you tell
> PDFCamp to write the 
> PDF file to (Desktop, Documents, wherever).
> 
> This was easy to workaround, however it was quite
> unexpected. Is it a 
> bug with Revolution for allowing it to happen, bug
> with PDFCamp for not 
> restoring the working directory, or both?  Should
> this be a Rev bug 
> report?
> 
> Alex Rice

Hi Alex,

I use Win2PDF for this sort of work, and don't have
this sort of problems, so I'd say that in this case,
PDFCamp is the culprit.

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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