Re: EPS from view failed

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 19/02/06, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> >
> > The output is:
> >
> > 2006-02-17 11:05:44.000 test.exe[192] Creating image
> > 2006-02-17 11:05:44.000 test.exe[192] Creating a default printer since no
> > printer has been set in the user defaults (under the GSLPRPrinters key).
> > 2006-02-17 11:05:44.000 test.exe[192] Printing to C
> > 2006-02-17 11:05:45.000 test.exe[192] unable to set blocking mode - An 
> > invalid
> > argument was supplied.
> >
> > 2006-02-17 11:05:45.000 test.exe[192] EPS Data length: 0
> > 2006-02-17 11:05:45.000 test.exe[192] Done
> > The file 'c' is writable by someone other than its owner.
> > Ignoring it.
> >
> >
> > What does "unable to set blocking mode - An invalid argument was supplied." 
> > mean
> > and why EPS data length is zero?
> >
>
> Sorry this is a wild guess, but the output you are getting suggests that
> no default printer has been set up for your GNUstep environment and when
> doing so, something goes wrong and this later stops the EPS output from
> working.
>
> You may claim now, that EPS output should not depend on a printer
> setting and this could true. I would not be surprised to learn that in
> the GNUstep printing environment this is after all the case.
>
> Could you first try to sort out the printer problem and then try again?
>

How? (under MS Windows) Can you point me to some documentation? Google
is not very helpful for that :-(


Stefan