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Ok, let's try this one:
Let's discuss the .PRN file format: This file is generated in Windows (as far back as 95, maybe even 3) if you select a file to print, and check the box that says "Print To File".
The Help for this function says:
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Prints the document to a file instead of routing it directly to a printer.The document is saved with the printer formatting, such as font selection and color specifications, in a .prn file that can be printed on another printer
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If, for example, you open up one of the Custom Shop Generators and you right-click the main window (the image of your Dream Axe) and select Print, you are presented with the standard Print Options panel, and this panel contains the checkbox for Print To File (HP printers, anyway - your particular printer may not have this option, or it may have it on another page).
Now, you select Print To File and then click Print, and it writes the file (in XP it puts it on the Desktop).
Drag And Drop this file into an open Printer window (Start/Settings/Printers And Faxes/Printer of your choice) and you get the little plus-box that signifies it's ok to drop it here (not the "NO" symbol), but you are greeted with a popup that says:
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This file cannot be printed. Please try opening the file from the correct application and try again.
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While I REALLY have no need of this particular function, it's one of those things I'd like to know about, as it's just confusing the crap out of me - how can a file generatd by a printing program NOT be readable in the program that created it?
Let's discuss the .PRN file format: This file is generated in Windows (as far back as 95, maybe even 3) if you select a file to print, and check the box that says "Print To File".
The Help for this function says:
[ QUOTE ]
Prints the document to a file instead of routing it directly to a printer.The document is saved with the printer formatting, such as font selection and color specifications, in a .prn file that can be printed on another printer
[/ QUOTE ]
If, for example, you open up one of the Custom Shop Generators and you right-click the main window (the image of your Dream Axe) and select Print, you are presented with the standard Print Options panel, and this panel contains the checkbox for Print To File (HP printers, anyway - your particular printer may not have this option, or it may have it on another page).
Now, you select Print To File and then click Print, and it writes the file (in XP it puts it on the Desktop).
Drag And Drop this file into an open Printer window (Start/Settings/Printers And Faxes/Printer of your choice) and you get the little plus-box that signifies it's ok to drop it here (not the "NO" symbol), but you are greeted with a popup that says:
[ QUOTE ]
This file cannot be printed. Please try opening the file from the correct application and try again.
[/ QUOTE ]
[img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img]
While I REALLY have no need of this particular function, it's one of those things I'd like to know about, as it's just confusing the crap out of me - how can a file generatd by a printing program NOT be readable in the program that created it?
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