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Anyone else have a problem printing....

Don MDon M Posts: 1,653
edited 2011-02-17 08:28 in Propeller 1
your spin code on your printer? Mine cuts off the bottom line at the bottom of the page so I always miss a line.

Using Windows XP, Xerox Phaser printer 8550

Any suggestions?

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  • CannibalRoboticsCannibalRobotics Posts: 535
    edited 2010-10-11 08:44
    Print can be sort of squirlly sometimes but it ususlly works. Have you checked to make sure you are using the latest driver for your printer? You also might try reducing the font size before printing.
  • wjsteelewjsteele Posts: 697
    edited 2010-10-11 10:28
    I'd check your margins... if your bottom margin is too small, it might actually be outside the printable area of your printer. Printers don't report that as a problem, they just don't print it.

    Bill
  • kuronekokuroneko Posts: 3,623
    edited 2010-10-11 20:21
    Don M wrote: »
    Any suggestions?

    The propeller tool has the annoying feature to eat extra line endings at the end of the file every time you reload it. That's why I usually put an empty DAT section at the end to keep the look consistent. This also means that the file ends with the text in your last line but (eventually) doesn't have a line break after it. This may confuse the printer.
  • yarisboyyarisboy Posts: 245
    edited 2010-10-11 20:53
    Always have had. Newest drivers from HP have never made a difference. The right margin and bottom margin gets cut off. I've played around with a lot of settings but have not been able to make the tool print correctly.
    A dat section at the end would save the last page but mine loses lines between each page. I consider it a real PITA. It does its best to ignore all changes and waste paper. I'm also using XP but with a different brand printer.
    Since some people have it right I'll try the reduced font size suggestion.

    At one level down on font size: One line lost

    At two levels down on font size: One line lost.

    Must be an unresolved bug like the off-by-one with hysteresis page markers at the bottom of the OBEX indexes.
  • YodaYoda Posts: 132
    edited 2010-10-11 21:09
    I have always had the same problem as well as it is very annoying. I have played ad infinitum with the margins. The only way I have been successful is to save as ASCII and print from notepad but you don't colorization then

    Wish it would get fixed as I still like hardcopy as I am developing to scribble on.
  • yarisboyyarisboy Posts: 245
    edited 2010-10-11 21:19
    wjsteele wrote: »
    I'd check your margins... if your bottom margin is too small, it might actually be outside the printable area of your printer. Printers don't report that as a problem, they just don't print it.

    Bill

    Bill, Where would I adjust margins? I didn't find a place to specify the maximum number of lines on a page within the tool.
  • kuronekokuroneko Posts: 3,623
    edited 2010-10-11 22:00
    FWIW, I just tried (1st time) and every line I see on screen ends up on paper (using a PM-A900 under Vista). The only issue is what looks like an unknown escape sequence in the page title.
  • yarisboyyarisboy Posts: 245
    edited 2010-10-12 05:54
    When I went down in font size it made permanent changes to the tool. It will not let me push font size back up and it has hosed the upper/lower case font set in column two. To correct this I will need to delete the tool and download/reinstall it again.
    The work around for the right margin is too grab the left text window edge and pull it right until no text is typed out past where the printer will print it without a wrap-around.
    The work around for the bottom margin is to turn on line numbers and do a test print. With the result one can comment in a forced page break and give it 5 carriage returns. On the next print turn off line numbers.
  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,887
    edited 2010-10-12 10:04
    Sounds like a painful problem...

    Just for fun, I'd try printing to the Microsoft XPS document writer (if you have that installed). Then, you can use the XPS viewer to print.

    I've seen some scenerios where this made things better...
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2010-10-12 10:13
    The solution is to print directly to a PDF file. The result turns out perfect. Stop wasting paper. This is a green world now.
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,935
    edited 2010-10-12 10:33
    I used to have that exact same problem. At first, installing the latest version 1.2.7R2 did not fix the issue. However, something lead me to believe that some configuration settings were carried over so I completely removed all things propeller from my computer. After re-installing the newest propeller tool, I can print just fine (it fixed a couple other bugs as well). It does cut the bottom line, but the full line is printed on the next page, so it doesn't matter.

    The problem of it always printing the area color where text does not exist even when color print is unchecked still exists. Attached are prints with the "Color Print" enabled (Prop-Tool-OkPrint.pdf) and disabled.
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    Prop-Tool-NoColorPrintBug.pdf
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  • Don MDon M Posts: 1,653
    edited 2011-02-16 19:02
    I also notice that the connecting lines for if/else or case statements does not print either. Maybe I'm doing something wrong I don't know. I even tried printing to XPS and PDF and they still don't show. Makes it hard to follow code on paper.

    Propellor Tool needs some attention !!
  • idbruceidbruce Posts: 6,197
    edited 2011-02-17 05:01
    Document printing can be quite tricky for a windows application, especially with customized views. Most likely these problems will be rectified with a new release version of the Prop Tool.

    Bruce
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2011-02-17 08:28
    For now, with the HP printer driver, try using the A4 paper setting which leaves some space at the bottom. Maybe Xerox is similar.
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