Print extension issues

While the Print action works with plain text and PDF documents, it does not work with Microsoft Word documents.  When I use Word on a PC at work, I can batch print several documents at once.  On my Mac, while I can always drag the documents to the printer application icon in the dock, I must still click on Print in the print dialogue for every document I want to print.  Is there a way for the Print action to work with Microsoft Word documents or, if not, could a separate plugin/action be created?

I figured out what was wrong.  I went to my print queue and changed the default printer from "last printer used" to "Canon MP620".  Now I'm able to print.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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?