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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