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From: Helge Haensel on 8 Aug 2006 14:38 Am 08.08.2006, 20:13 Uhr, schrieb Mike Williams <gagamomo(a)yahoo.co.uk>: > > Helge Haensel wrote: > >> [lots of stuff] > > . . . by the way, I've just been doing a little bit of digging around > and I'm fairly certain that the failure of the VB5 printer object to > retain its "Set Printer" setting as soon as any one of a number of > printer methods or properties are accessed was fixed in VB5 Service > Pack 3. At the moment I'm having trouble finding a copy of VB5 SP3 to > try it out, but I'm almost certain that if you find it and install it > your "Set Printer" problem will be fixed. Can anyone else here provide > a reliable link to a VB5 service pack download? > > Once you have downloaded and installed the service pack let me know if > it fixes the "Set Printer" problem for you.I'll then help you with the > other problems you mentioned, if you still have any. > > Don't forget to let me know if VB5 SP3 fixes the Set printer problem > for you. I Iike to keep tabs on these things ;-) > > Mike Williams (MVP - Visual Basic) > Ok, installing vb5sp3.exe now. Keep fingers crossed. Helge
From: Helge Haensel on 8 Aug 2006 15:41 Am 08.08.2006, 20:38 Uhr, schrieb Helge Haensel <dj1wm(a)nurfuerspam.de>: > Am 08.08.2006, 20:13 Uhr, schrieb Mike Williams <gagamomo(a)yahoo.co.uk>: > >> >> Helge Haensel wrote: >> >>> [lots of stuff] >> >> . . . by the way, I've just been doing a little bit of digging around >> and I'm fairly certain that the failure of the VB5 printer object to >> retain its "Set Printer" setting as soon as any one of a number of >> printer methods or properties are accessed was fixed in VB5 Service >> Pack 3. At the moment I'm having trouble finding a copy of VB5 SP3 to >> try it out, but I'm almost certain that if you find it and install it >> your "Set Printer" problem will be fixed. Can anyone else here provide >> a reliable link to a VB5 service pack download? >> >> Once you have downloaded and installed the service pack let me know if >> it fixes the "Set Printer" problem for you.I'll then help you with the >> other problems you mentioned, if you still have any. >> >> Don't forget to let me know if VB5 SP3 fixes the Set printer problem >> for you. I Iike to keep tabs on these things ;-) >> >> Mike Williams (MVP - Visual Basic) >> > Ok, installing vb5sp3.exe now. Keep fingers crossed. > Helge > Did it. Your earlier code (with the Dialogbox) now lets me select the PDF-Printer an puts the doc in the buffer. And there it is until i start any other job to print to PDF. Then 'The quick brown...' comes up in the Acro-Reader and the 2. print-job hangs. Killing doesnt work. A warmstart of pc kills the printjob in the printer-queue. Acro-reader is V7.0.7 Helge
From: Mike Williams on 8 Aug 2006 11:37 "Helge Haensel" <dj1wm(a)nurfuerspam.de> wrote in message news:4jr3u7F9b4imU1(a)individual.net... > The code i am using is from a msg of yours from thread 'Vb > Printer Dialog Problems (VB6)' dated 29.06.2006. Okay. I've just tried that code on my own system and it works fine with all printers, including the PDF995 driver. Everything works. There are some settings in the code that do not actually make sense for the PDF driver (for example PaperBin and Duplex settings) but those things are caught by the On Error Resume Next stuff, so they aren't a problem. It all works fine. On my system I can set the Windows default printer to anything I want and then use my code to print to any other installed printer, including to a pdf file using the PDF995 printer driver, and it works fine, printing the pdf file correctly without messing up the default printer at all. > WindowsXP/HE SP2, OfficeXP/Pro SP3, VB5E Right. I didn't realise you were using VB5. There were many problems with the VB5 printer driver (more than there are in VB6). Some of the VB5 printer problems were fixed by the various service packs and some were not. I've just installed my old "vanilla" version of VB5 (no service packs) and tried the same code again. In VB5 the same code did not work! It isn't a problem with any detail of the code, but rather a problem with the VB5 printer object. Even a simple Set Printer assignment does not work. It appears to work when you use the Set printer command (if you ask for the Printer.DeviceName it will tell you that the printer has been changed) but as soon as you actually try to use the printer it will simply reset itself to the default. On my standard vanilla VB5 installation this happens for all printers, not just the PDF995 driver. For example, try the code at the end of this message. If you start off with a specific default printer and you use the code to change to another printer you will see that the Set printer line actually works. However, as soon as you use Printer.Print (or anything else really) the printer resets itself back to the default. This happens on my own WinXP SP2 Home system using a vanilla installation of VB5. I'm not sure if the problem was ever fixed by any of the VB5 service packs, and I can't seem to find an old VB5 service pack to try it with. Maybe you can check it on your own system? What service pack do you use? > Now i am very keen for your answer and hope my problems > will not keep you to much off your businesswork. Don't worry about it. I like problems ;-) By the way, I can write some code for you that will definitely allow you to do what you want (select and use any printer other than the default) and that code will definitely work on all systems using either VB6 or VB5 with or without service packs and it will work with all printers, including the PDF995 driver. However, such code will require you to print your stuff using the various API functions instead of the standard VB Printer Object methods. So, for simplicity it might be wise to check out the behaviour of the VB Printer object using the latest VB5 service pack. Let me know which Service Pack you are using, and if it is not the latest one then perhaps you (or someone else here) might be able to tell us where we can download it. The Microsoft web pages seem to be extremely short of VB5 stuff these days! (Unless of course you also have VB6, in which case you should use that instead of VB5). > I need an equivalent to the VB PinterObject statement > 'Form7.PrintForm' because I have a form7 (overlarged > poscard size) that after positioning controls and setting > the printer param's will be printed about 300 times > with different text-contents coming from a database. I usually advise people against dumping Forms to the printer, whatever method they use, because of the limited resolution. I usually advise people to instead draw their stuff directly to the printer using the various Printer object drawing and printing methods, which are capable of giving you a high resolution output. But if you really do want to dump low resolution Form bitmaps to the printer then I can help you with it. However, it would be wise to get the problem with the VB5 Set printer method sorted out first. Try the code at the end of this message and let me know how it behaves on your own version of VB5. If, as I suspect, it fails to set the Printer correctly then you can try updating to a later VB5 service pack and trying it again. If you are still stuck after doing that then I'll help you out with the alternative API printing method I have mentioned. Let me know how it goes. > Is your return address working? Mine is. Otherwise > we will extend the thread here for nobodies interest. The return address shown in my postings is a dummy (a protection against spammers who farm the newsgroups for addresses). However, I'm certainly prepared to let you have my real email address if you wish. For the moment though I'd prefer to carry this thread on in the newsgroup because there are often people who are interested in the outcome of certain threads even if they don't actively participate in them. I'll mail you my address as soon as I finish this message, but (as I've said) I'd still prefer you to continue this thread in the group, even if you decide to additionally mail me privately, just in case there are others who are interested. For example, I'm sure there are many people with various VB5 service packs who might like to let us know how the sample code (below) behaves on their system. Don't worry if VB5 won't work properly even with all the service packs. As I've said there are other much more reliable ways of going about this job. But I'd prefer to attempt the "service pack" fix first. > What i am missing is a choice of formatting text to be printed > and eventually some kind of param's passing as to preset > landscape/portrait, font(-size), bolt font and as to use . . . All that stuff is fairly simple. But it's not worth bothering with at this stage, at least not until we establish whether a VB5 service pack will fix the specific printer object problem, because if it doesn't (and if you are unable to use VB6 instead) then we'll have to go to the API for our printing, which will of course require very different code than would be required using the VB printe
From: Helge Haensel on 8 Aug 2006 16:21 Am 08.08.2006, 20:38 Uhr, schrieb Helge Haensel <dj1wm(a)nurfuerspam.de>: > Am 08.08.2006, 20:13 Uhr, schrieb Mike Williams <gagamomo(a)yahoo.co.uk>: > >> >> Helge Haensel wrote: >> >>> [lots of stuff] >> >> . . . by the way, I've just been doing a little bit of digging around >> and I'm fairly certain that the failure of the VB5 printer object to >> retain its "Set Printer" setting as soon as any one of a number of >> printer methods or properties are accessed was fixed in VB5 Service >> Pack 3. At the moment I'm having trouble finding a copy of VB5 SP3 to >> try it out, but I'm almost certain that if you find it and install it >> your "Set Printer" problem will be fixed. Can anyone else here provide >> a reliable link to a VB5 service pack download? >> >> Once you have downloaded and installed the service pack let me know if >> it fixes the "Set Printer" problem for you.I'll then help you with the >> other problems you mentioned, if you still have any. >> >> Don't forget to let me know if VB5 SP3 fixes the Set printer problem >> for you. I Iike to keep tabs on these things ;-) >> >> Mike Williams (MVP - Visual Basic) >> > Ok, installing vb5sp3.exe now. Keep fingers crossed. > Helge > Killed my pdf995-driver due to blocked job in PDF-printer queue. Were did you get your your version 7.9. The official PDF-web-Page is unreachable. Helge
From: Geoff on 9 Aug 2006 00:45
"Mike Williams" <gagamomo(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1155060787.712553.78830(a)m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > . Can anyone else here provide > a reliable link to a VB5 service pack download? > There is one still available from MS's FTP, Mike ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/visualstudio/sp3/vb5/vbsp3.exe |