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[Hwgui-developers] Problem with printer scripts

[Alain A. <ala...@wa...>]

Hi all,

I generate a script and use setmode(2) to print in landscape.
It works when I print to a printer

When I choose print in a file, the first page is now print in protrait
mode (when previewing or printing with system print box)
I have found a trick, but it's really curious.
Doubling the line  'page,1,mm,l ', done the trick.
I'm curious about an explanation. Do I fail, or is-it a bug of Hwgui or
a bug of gnmoe ?

Another thing:
I have not the syntaxe of printer commands, but I found it searching in
source, and I can use a great part of them without problem.
But I can't figure how to set duplex in setmode()
I have tried a value of 2 for short edge 'setmode(2,2)' but the printer
doesn't understand, and there is no duplex when printing.

Thanks
A+

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Re: [Hwgui-developers] Problem with printer scripts

[Alain A. <ala...@wa...>]

Le 12/10/2015 16:58, Alain Aupeix a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I generate a script and use setmode(2) to print in landscape.
> It works when I print to a printer
>
> When I choose print in a file, the first page is now print in protrait
> mode (when previewing or printing with system print box)
> I have found a trick, but it's really curious.
> Doubling the line  'page,1,mm,l ', done the trick.
> I'm curious about an explanation. Do I fail, or is-it a bug of Hwgui or
> a bug of gnome ?
Well, I found the reason:
hwgui seems to add a line job with wrong parameters

job,589,836,2.83,2.83,utf8
the same line as if it wat in protrait mode
without regarding the the setmode(2) command

If I don't add a line, when I close the system printer box, cups adds
this line:

job,836.00,589.00,2.83,2.83,utf8

which invert the page size values, and it works

Adding a line at the top of the file, don't allow cups to add the line,
and I save the file with the bad job line

Can you have a look to what is wrong in hprinter.prg ?

Thanks
A+
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Alain Aupeix
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http://pissobi-lacassagne.pagesperso-orange.fr/
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Re: [Hwgui-developers] Problem with printer scripts

[Alain A. <ala...@wa...>]

Le 12/10/2015 17:55, Alain Aupeix a écrit :
> Le 12/10/2015 16:58, Alain Aupeix a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I generate a script and use setmode(2) to print in landscape.
>> It works when I print to a printer
>>
>> When I choose print in a file, the first page is now print in protrait
>> mode (when previewing or printing with system print box)
>> I have found a trick, but it's really curious.
>> Doubling the line  'page,1,mm,l ', done the trick.
>> I'm curious about an explanation. Do I fail, or is-it a bug of Hwgui or
>> a bug of gnome ?
> Well, I found the reason:
> hwgui seems to add a line job with wrong parameters
Hum, I correct.
This works when I generate the script, and print it iùùediately, but not
when I load the script.

I found the reason : when I load a saved script, I must setmode() after
having loaded the script.
I thought it was recorded in the file but it seems not.

A+
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Alain Aupeix
http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/
http://pissobi-lacassagne.pagesperso-orange.fr/
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U.buntu 12.04 | G.ramps 3.4.9-1 | H.arbour 3.2.0dev (2015-10-02 14:45) |
HbIDE (Rev.316) | Five.Linux (r143) | Hw.Gui (2494)
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