Re: [ jEdit-users ] Printing problem

[Edward D. <eld...@tr...>]

On 10/14/2019 9:05 AM, Jarvis, Bob wrote:
> 
> 
> I’ve seen this pop up in the following circumstance:
> 
>  1. I had a default printer set in Windows.
>  2. I had printed to this printer from jEdit.
>  3. I changed my default printer in Windows, and
>  4. I deleted the old default printer completely from Windows.
> 
> jEdit started throwing the “Invalid print service” message.
> 
> To fix it I edited the jEdit “properties” file 
> (C:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\jEdit\properties) and deleted the 
> “print.lastUsedPrinter” line.

Thank you ! That solved my problem and JEdit is printing again.

I think this is a bug in JEdit, especially because JEdit can be used 
with multiple OSs in a multi-boot environment, with each OS using the 
same command line -settings=some_path in a shared partition. That is how 
I use JEdit and the printer names are certainly different in each OS, 
even if the actual printer is the same.

Do I need to file a bug report, Dale, on this issue ?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> *From:* Dale Anson <da...@da...>
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 12, 2019 4:01 PM
> *To:* Edward Diener <eld...@tr...>
> *Cc:* jedit-users <jed...@li...>
> *Subject:* Re: [ jEdit-users ] Printing problem
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> There are only two places where that message can come from, one for 
> regular printing and one for the print preview. The one for regular 
> printing should have printed a stack trace to the Activity Log. Do you 
> see one? If so, would you send it to me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dale
> 
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 11:33 AM Edward Diener <eld...@tr... 
> <mailto:eld...@tr...>> wrote:
> 
>     Running JEdit 5.5.0 on Windows 10, I have two printers. One is
>     currently
>     low in one of its toner cartridges, but can still print, while the
>     other
>     is fine. When I try to Print in JEdit I get:
> 
>     "An error occurred while trying to print. Invalid print service."
> 
>     and JEdit can not print my current file. The printing function had
>     always been working before so I do not know why it has stopped working.
>     I suspect it is simply because of the low toner cartridge, but I have
>     changed nothing in JEdit to keep it from working.