Hi Steve As I noted earlier, the call from the FTM menu seems to be hard wired to one particular print driver-the one that came with the original package. And that's the one giving problems. I've tried later versions from the company that provided the original one, plus a few others that are available, as you suggest. But there has been no joy. I'll manage without it! :-( Paul

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:38:47 -0800 (PST), pblair <pblair@pcug.org.au> wrote: >Hi Steve > >As I noted earlier, the call from the FTM menu seems to be hard wired to one particular print driver-the one that came with the original package. And that's the one giving problems. What happens if you buy a new printer? -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

Steve Hayes wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:38:47 -0800 (PST), pblair<pblair@pcug.org.au> wrote: > >> Hi Steve >> >> As I noted earlier, the call from the FTM menu seems to be hard wired to one particular print driver-the one that came with the original package. And that's the one giving problems. > > What happens if you buy a new printer? > > As far as I can make out this is a pseudo-printer driver to generate PDFs. I suppose one alternative might be to try an alternative package & rename the executable to that of the original, always assuming Win8 will allow the user to do that. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:39:01 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >Steve Hayes wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:38:47 -0800 (PST), pblair<pblair@pcug.org.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi Steve >>> >>> As I noted earlier, the call from the FTM menu seems to be hard wired to one particular print driver-the one that came with the original package. And that's the one giving problems. >> >> What happens if you buy a new printer? >> >> > >As far as I can make out this is a pseudo-printer driver to generate >PDFs. I suppose one alternative might be to try an alternative package >& rename the executable to that of the original, always assuming Win8 >will allow the user to do that. I have a Samsung printer, which seems to work with most Windows programs. It's a bit of a mission to get it to work with DOS programs, though. It replaced a Konica-Minolta printer, but when I changed I did not have to get an alternative package and rename any executables, so I'm finding it difficult to understand what the problem is. I used to have FTM 2006 -- it came on one of those discs that come with magazines, and I tried it out, didn't like it and removed it. Perhaps I could find the original disc and reinstall it, and see if it works with one of the many PDF printers available. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:39:01 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >Steve Hayes wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:38:47 -0800 (PST), pblair<pblair@pcug.org.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi Steve >>> >>> As I noted earlier, the call from the FTM menu seems to be hard wired to one particular print driver-the one that came with the original package. And that's the one giving problems. >> >> What happens if you buy a new printer? >> >> > >As far as I can make out this is a pseudo-printer driver to generate >PDFs. I suppose one alternative might be to try an alternative package >& rename the executable to that of the original, always assuming Win8 >will allow the user to do that. Is there any reason why one could not use this: http://fineprint.com/ or this: http://pdfpro10.com/o/creator/ or this: http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator and I'm sure there must be lots of others. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk