OS X Printing Problem

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Wed Feb 13 12:21:03 EST 2002


At 8:22 AM -0800 2/13/02, Ben C. Fetherston, Jr. wrote:
>I can't speak for Lee, but I have no problem with printing from any other
>application I use in OS X, either Carbon or Cocoa, and my printer is a
>shared printer on an AppleTalk ethernet network.
>

[snip]

>  >>
>>>  Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:28:26 -0800
>>>  Subject: OS X Printing Problem
>>>  From: "Ben C. Fetherston, Jr." <bfether at mac.com>
>>>  To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>>>  Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>>
>>>  I have an application that as a standalone will print the text in a
>>>  field
>>>  under OS 9.2 without any problem.  Using the same stack in a standalone
>>>  under OS X, the printing won't work.  Has anyone had similar problems
>>>  with
>>>  printing in OS X?
>>>
>>>  Under OS X the printing just hangs and can't be cancelled.  This is true
>>>  under the standalone application as well as in the OS X version of
>>>  RunRev
>>>  under browse or suspend UI.
>>>
>>>  --
>>>  bfether at mac.com
>>>  Salem, OR USA
>>>
>>>  This is a known bug. I've reported it before. The same thing happens
>>>  with revPrintField  or when printing a long script in OSX.
>>>
>  >> ~ Lee Perham

I get precisely the same behavior when I try to print from a 
Transcript Dictionary window under OS X--the printing hangs and can't 
be cancelled.  The only way to get out of it is to kill the 
Revolution process (force quit).

Devin
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Devin Asay
Humanities Research Center
Brigham Young University



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