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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

2874.0. "Unable to print partial doc in GoldExpand print setting" by GIDDAY::LEH () Thu Jun 17 1993 06:34

IOS 3.0

Has anyone noticed printing a range of pages from a multi-page doc didn't work 
when specifying this range in Gold Expand (form PRINT_SETTINGS) but worked OK 
in Next Screen (form WPPARG1) ?

It seemed to always print the whole doc ignoring the specified range supplied 
while in form PRINT_SETTINGS

Hong
CSC Sydney

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2874.1	Job Parameters?	IOSG::NEWLAND	Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2	`Thu Jun 17 1993 11:34`	15
	When you used Gold Expand did the resulting VMS background formatter and prints jobs have a /PAGES attribute? Using 'First page printed:' and 'Last page printed:' on the 'WPS-PLUS Formatter Print Settings Menu' (WPPARG1) form is different to using 'First page:' and 'Last Page:' on the ALL-IN-1 'Print Settings' menu. In the WPS-PLUS case you are requesting the WPS-PLUS formatter to create a partial listing file. In the ALL-IN-1 case you are requesting ALL-IN-1 to create a VMS Print Job with /PAGES so that the Print symbionts only print part of the listing file. Richard
2874.2	/PAGE and PostScript is not too good	IOSG::SHOVE	Dave Shove -- REO2-G/M6	`Thu Jun 17 1993 17:21`	6
	And be aware that /PAGES is _incredibly_ slow when printing to PostScript printers, as the printer hs to interpret the whole .PS file just to count the pages! This takes exactly the same time as it would've done to print the pages; the only thing you save is paper. Dave.
2874.3	/PAGES and PostScript not working at all	GIDDAY::LEH		`Mon Jun 21 1993 06:20`	17
	Richard/Dave Thanks for info and comments. Printing partial document didn't seem to work on PS printers at all, i.e sending an ASCII file with /PAGES to a PS queue with say CPS symbiont resulted in the whole file being printed. I tested it with an RMS file, in addition to the original IOS print problem. LATSYM printers handled /PAGE OK, which I didn't test IOS print in the first place; hence, this base note I wasn't aware of the above limitation until now, can anyone confirm ? Thanks Hong
2874.4	See DECprint documentation	IOSG::NEWLAND	Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2	`Mon Jun 21 1993 11:30`	7
	See section 2.1 of the Decprint Printing Services for VMS User User's Guide which says that /PAGES is ignored and that the PAGE_LIMIT parameter should be used instead. The ALL-IN-1 user interface supports Page Limit on the last screen of the Print Settings menu. Richard
2874.5	Sorry, mis-typed .2	IOSG::SHOVE	Dave Shove -- REO2-G/M6	`Mon Jun 21 1993 12:19`	10
	Sorry, I meant /PARAM=PAGE_LIMIT=... (The syntax is a bit bizarre too - if you want to specify both starting and ending page numbers, you have to put them in parentheses, as the Help tells you, and in quotes which the Help doesn't tell you. Thus: $print .../param=(data=post,"page_limit=(10,20)") Good, eh?)