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From: goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Excel 2.2 not printing with 1.3 ATM
Message-ID: <385.28044874@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 15:28:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.064905.25697@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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In article <1991Apr10.064905.25697@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
> I have been using Excel 2.2 for a while now, with 1.2 first and with 1.3
> now. Since installing the OS/2 version 1.3 (with Adobe Type Manager)
> Excel does no longer print. When I choose the print command, the print
> dialog box appears, after choosing Ok, the Cancel-Box appears and it
> begins spooling. The job appears in the Print Manager's queue and after a
> while Excel finishes spooling and the Cancel-Box disappears, everything
> without any error message. But the job hangs in the Print Manager's
> queue and never starts printing. I have already tried to copy the
> created spool file directly to LPT1 (I use an Epson LQ-500 24pin printer
> with the driver supplied with OS/2 1.3), but it seems to be incomplete.
> I assume that Excel aborted during printing because of an internal error
> but issued no warning to the user.
> 
> Doe anyone have an idea what to do now?
	I haven't had this problem. I've even used ATM fonts that are not
on my postscript printer without any problem under 1.3.  Could it be the
version of excel you're using?  Isn't the latest excel for os/2 2.21?

		Adrian

> 
> Kai Uwe Rommel
> 
> /* Kai Uwe Rommel, Munich ----- rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de */
> 
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> handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams (MS)
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