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General Discussion / Re: Is Hobbes down for you?
« on: February 06, 2013, 02:14:17 am »
Hi Ben

Sorry I misunderstood the problem - mainly because I could get the main page without any problem but trying any of the links eg /pub/os2 returned the error message you posted.

Regards

Pete

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General Discussion / Re: Is Hobbes down for you?
« on: February 05, 2013, 04:57:13 pm »
Hi Ben

WRT hobbes email check the bottom of the "Welcome to Hobbes" page - http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/ - and you will see email contact details there.


Regards

Pete

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General Discussion / Re: Is Hobbes down for you?
« on: February 04, 2013, 09:00:46 pm »
Hi Ben

Yes, looks like a problem with hobbes...

Have you sent an email to let them know?


Regards

Pete

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Applications / Re: Qpdf
« on: January 27, 2013, 10:22:41 pm »
Hi All

Having updated cups to the very latest I can now print from qpdf - once. Any attempt to print another document fails - nothing happens.

In order to try and see what the problem is I attempted to start my browser. No go, Seamonkey will not start with any established Profiles or with the Profile Manager.

I closed qpdf and retried Seamonkey - which started without problems.

So, qpdf can print once and does not allow Seamonkey to start while qpdf is running. No problem starting qpdf with Seamonkey already running though.

I had a look at my cups log to see what had gone wrong with my 3 printing attempts (after the successul print). The answers are:-

/cups/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed"
/cups/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed"
"/cups/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.exe failed"

Obviously qpdf needs a bit more work but looks promising.

Regards

Pete



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Applications / Re: Qpdf
« on: January 25, 2013, 03:20:54 am »
Hi All

Having extracted the libjpeg.dll and zlib.dll from the zip files and put them on the libpath then unzipped qpdf and created a qPDF program object and gave it a try.

Seems to work well - no problem opening pdf files on different partitions here.

Printing does not work. Having checked the CUPS Jobs I see that is because the job state is:-

stopped
"Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory"

I opened a command window and had a check for the file

[J:\]dir pdftops* /s

The volume label in drive J is eCSApps.
The Volume Serial Number is 969D:85C1.

Directory of J:\cups\lib\cups\filter

11-06-12  6:10a        11,316    124 a--r  pdftops.exe
        1 file(s)      11,316 bytes used


I tried to print a different document and this failed with:-

stopped
"/cups/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.exe failed"

In both instances the cups log shows "Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory"

The file exists so the question is: Is this a CUPS or qpdf error?

As both Paul and Silvan seem to be reading this thread I'm hoping for a definitive answer and maybe a fix?


Regards

Pete

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Hardware / Re: Kudos to the eComStation developers....
« on: January 03, 2013, 07:25:26 pm »
Hi

I've been using the Innotek Font Engine to enhance the WPS for years and it does not seem to cause any problems here - except if a menu entry is too long it may lose a character or 2 from the end ie when I click the "eCS button" on the eComCentre the menu entry for File and Print Client Resource Browser is too long for the width of the menu so the "er" is missing from "Browser".

I can live with that as there are only a very few menu entries that show this problem :-)

I've attached a screenshot of a bit of my Innotek Font Engine enhanced Desktop. I have my system set to use Warpsans Bold for Icon View (Desktop and DVD/CD Toys) and Warpsans standard for Tree View (Drive L).

I think Seamonkey uses WorkplaceSans by default if it is installed but I'm not sure which version I am using... here is the dir entry:-
11-10-11 12:22p        42,224      0 a---  WPSU.TTF

Note the date is in DD-MM-YY format.




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Hardware / Re: Kudos to the eComStation developers....
« on: January 03, 2013, 04:13:11 am »
Hi Conrad

You can make screen fonts look better by adding applications to the Registry Key. To make the WPS look better use the following instructions to add pmshell.exe to the Registry Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\InnoTek\InnoTek Font Engine\Applications using the Registry Editor:-

RMB (Right Mouse Button) on Applications and select New, Key and name it pmshell.exe
RMB on pmshell.exe and select New, DWORD and call it Enabled - this autonatically has a Value of 0 which needs to be changed to 1
Close Registry Editor and then restart the WPS - or reboot

Text should now be a bit better  :-)

You can do the same for other applications - and, while I think of it, you should either Delete keys for seamonkey.exe, thunderbird.exe and firefox.exe or set the Enabled value to 0. Recent/current builds of these applications do not use the font engine to enhance text as that capability is now built into these applications and leaving the font engine keys enabled can cause problems.

Regards

Pete

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Congratulations
« on: December 27, 2012, 04:21:16 pm »
Great to see os2world back online.

Regards

Pete

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