<![CDATA[Dropzone Forums — Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/topic/17/print-extension-issues/ Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:49:01 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/457/#p457 John wrote:

Did it actually print when you ran the lp command on the Pathfinder jpg on the command line (the bit you did in the screenshot in the top left)? Dropzone is just calling the lp command (and I see it says 'Detained' when you do this) so it looks like the printer might be paused or something.

Is printing to that printer from other apps working?

Hi,

when I ran the command in the terminal, happens exactly the same, nothing is printed.

In other apps there is no problem, this other apps includes from web browsers, notepad, photoshop, word etc... any app

]]> Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:49:01 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/457/#p457 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/456/#p456 Did it actually print when you ran the lp command on the Pathfinder jpg on the command line (the bit you did in the screenshot in the top left)? Dropzone is just calling the lp command (and I see it says 'Detained' when you do this) so it looks like the printer might be paused or something.

Is printing to that printer from other apps working?

]]> Sun, 23 Feb 2014 01:25:09 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/456/#p456 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/455/#p455 Hi,

near exactly the same result...

http://i.imgur.com/kXelWe9.png

now the message of 'printing' does not appear

]]> Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:26:38 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/455/#p455 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/454/#p454 OK, thanks. Unfortunately I'm still not sure what the problem is. I've modified the destination script slightly to provide more debug output. Can you please download http://shipsomecode.com/misc/Print.dropzone.zip - unzip it and then double click the Print.dropzone file to install it (it should replace your existing print extension). Then try to print a jpg again and look at the debug console.

It still won't print but in the debugging output there should be a line that says something like command: lp -d <printer name> "Pathfinder.jpg"

Please open a terminal and paste everything after the 'command:' part into Terminal (it is in Applications under the Utilities folder) and see if it prints then or paste me any output from the lp command.

]]> Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:47:05 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/454/#p454 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/452/#p452 same problem with pdf, jpg, xls and doc file

http://i.imgur.com/Rjeqbwp.png

here is the log:


[Launching task with command line: runner.rb Print.dropzone dragged /Users/clamatac/Documents/Listados Soft, MKV, DVDs etc/PS3 Juegos.xls]

Finish_Message: Printing...
URL: 0

[Task completed]

[Launching task with command line: runner.rb Print.dropzone dragged /Users/clamatac/Pictures/Pathfinder.jpg]

Finish_Message: Printing...
URL: 0

[Task completed]

[Launching task with command line: runner.rb Print.dropzone dragged /Users/clamatac/Pictures/Pathfinder.jpg]

Finish_Message: Printing...
URL: 0

[Task completed]

[Launching task with command line: runner.rb Print.dropzone dragged /Users/clamatac/Documents/Listados Soft, MKV, DVDs etc/DARKSIDERS Guia PS3.doc]

Finish_Message: Printing...
URL: 0

[Task completed]

]]> Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:14:48 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/452/#p452 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/447/#p447 Is it just PDFs that it fails for or other file types also? Try dragging a jpg onto the print destination and see if that works.

Have a look in the debug console when dragging onto the print destination. You can do this by opening the Dropzone Preferences and then pressing CMD+Shift+D

Paste me the output from the debug console - maybe that will shed some light. I just tried the print destination myself with a PDF and it worked fine so it may be something specific about your setup.

]]> Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:37:57 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/447/#p447 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/442/#p442 the problem remains...

any idea or solution?

does it works for anyone?

]]> Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:20:40 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/442/#p442 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/436/#p436 Hi,

first of all sorry for my english

I have just bought Dropzone 2 in macheist bundle 4.

Interesting app with great future I think. I have already used it with imageshack and desktop-wallpaper with success.

I have also tested with 'print' plug-in but it does not work correctly.

In this image

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6291/dzq4.png

you can see that the error says 'no pages found' but that is not true. The same error occurs with different PDFs I have tried.

Any idea?

Thanks!

]]> Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:20:12 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/436/#p436 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/345/#p345 Hi Matan,

My goal with creating the Print destination was to provide a 'quick and dirty' way to print a file without opening the application it was created in. There are major downsides to doing this, such as the fact that you can't set printer settings such as layout, copies etc. Also I had to do a bit of a hack to make Word docs print - they are rendered using the Quicklook engine before printing so the formatting will not always be correct. The destination is actually often a poor choice for printing.

Really the use case I had in mind for this was something like - I have map image or a little text or something that I just need printed in a hurry. If you're using the Print destination for anything more than that then you're missing the point of the destination.

I'm afraid no further print options are coming for this destination.

]]> Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:38:28 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/345/#p345 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/330/#p330 Hi John,
While I the problem the issue of supporting thousands of printer options, there are a few central options that should be addressed. The most relevant of these would be the option to choose the paper size. Currently, I can't seem to persuade the Print extension to print A4 sized pages (The most common print-size on earth) only Letter sized pages (the most common print size in North America). Could you add support for paper size? Or does it already exist and I've blundered by it blindly?

Thanks!
Matan

]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:21:19 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/330/#p330 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/268/#p268 Hi Michael

The print destination doesn't support advanced printing options like you describe. I started going down the road of adding more configuration and realized that there are literally thousands of options users may want to configure when printing and this falls way outside the scope of what Dropzone is designed for.

The print destination is really only for a super quick and dirty way to print a document without having to open it first. e.g. I want this PDF printed, real quick. If you're trying to use it for tasks beyond this then you're missing the point of the destination.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 07:29:13 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/268/#p268 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/266/#p266 Hello there,

I got another question on the print extension.
Is there a way to configure the print options?

I'd like to use it with different documents... some of them for example need to be printed in grayscale, the others in cmyk... some need to be with no fitting options, some with...

I would be glad to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Michael

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 06:53:05 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/266/#p266 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/170/#p170 I've just updated the print destination.

It now supports printer selection and also printing of Microsoft Word documents. You can download the latest version of this extension from http://aptonic.com/extend.php

]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:30:56 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/170/#p170 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/149/#p149 The Dropzone Print destination doesn't currently support printing of Word Documents or changing print settings.

I'm working on a better version of the Print destination. I whipped up the current one in a few minutes to just print images, text and PDFs but it has been a lot more popular than I expected so I am now improving it.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:23:40 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/149/#p149 <![CDATA[Re: Print extension issues]]> https://forums.aptonic.com/post/114/#p114 I just started experimenting with Dropzone and I am having a problem with Print. When I dropped a Word document (.docx) on it, it completely went crazy and started printing many pages with one or two lines of gibberish on each one.

I then tried printing a .txt file and the printout came out really ugly with very large fonts and each paragraph as one stream with no regard to word boundaries. Special characters (such as characters with umlaut) does not show up either.

Is there some configuration that I need to do?

]]> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:28:26 +0000 https://forums.aptonic.com/post/114/#p114