Re: QPC2 v5 released
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:47 pm
Many many thanks Marcel!
You still need QPCPrint if you want to print to a generic Windows printer. QPC itself can only pass raw data to one of the ports or printers.dilwyn wrote:Me being me, I thought it'd be a good idea to use the "Microsoft Print To PDF" as default printer on my Windoze 10 system to generate PDFs direct from QPC2. Oops. All it does is generate a "QPC2 Print Job.pdf" file (without asking for filename like it does for other programs) which the PDF reader claims is broken and zero length. Maybe QPC2 treats it as a printer filter (although the USE FILTER option isn't available), or maybe it just needs a different kind of input text? Anyhow, it works fine for the Windows programs, just not QPC2.
Ah, that clarifies that, thank you Marcel.mk79 wrote:You still need QPCPrint if you want to print to a generic Windows printer. QPC itself can only pass raw data to one of the ports or printers.dilwyn wrote:Me being me, I thought it'd be a good idea to use the "Microsoft Print To PDF" as default printer on my Windoze 10 system to generate PDFs direct from QPC2. Oops. All it does is generate a "QPC2 Print Job.pdf" file (without asking for filename like it does for other programs) which the PDF reader claims is broken and zero length. Maybe QPC2 treats it as a printer filter (although the USE FILTER option isn't available), or maybe it just needs a different kind of input text? Anyhow, it works fine for the Windows programs, just not QPC2.
Big thank you to Marcel for this as well as all his other work. Print to PDF works now. If anyone else wishes to create PDFs from QPC2 with programs like Quill or Xchange, here's how I did it in the end - thought I may as well share the info as Marcel went to the trouble to help. I have QPCprint - was astonished to find the licence key still worked after all these years as I haven't used it for a long time.mk79 wrote:You still need QPCPrint if you want to print to a generic Windows printer. QPC itself can only pass raw data to one of the ports or printers.dilwyn wrote:Me being me, I thought it'd be a good idea to use the "Microsoft Print To PDF" as default printer on my Windoze 10 system to generate PDFs direct from QPC2. Oops. All it does is generate a "QPC2 Print Job.pdf" file (without asking for filename like it does for other programs) which the PDF reader claims is broken and zero length. Maybe QPC2 treats it as a printer filter (although the USE FILTER option isn't available), or maybe it just needs a different kind of input text? Anyhow, it works fine for the Windows programs, just not QPC2.