Petri Sakkinen Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 I am having serious problems with the old mainstay of CAD DTP - Print2Pict. Usually it works, but occasionally it does not, but crashes VW, with error code 4 (divide by zero). The strange thing is that the problems appeared, I think, in MacOS 9/VW 8.5 combination, then by and large went away with VW 9 - now they are back. The files & print areas are fairly large (I often need A2 image files at 300dpi). Unfortunately, M. Raoult has not updated his fabulous piece of software since 1996. Maybe I have an extension conflict or something? Any ideas? MacOS 9.2.2 VW 9.5.1 Quote Link to comment
0 Matthew Giampapa Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 Petri, There were a lot of internal printing changes in 9.5.0 and then a few more tweaks in 9.5.1. I would just leave a copy of 9.0.1 on the machine and open the file in that when the need arises to generate a large PICT. You could also use Print2PDF and convert the PDF into a PICT. Matthew GiampapaNNA Technical Support Quote Link to comment
0 Petri Sakkinen Posted May 14, 2002 Author Share Posted May 14, 2002 Right - makes sense in the light of my recent experiences. (Luckily, I have enough RAM to even run two versions simultaneously.) But can we undo these internal changes? I'm not the only one who relies on Print2Pict. Alternatively, 'Export / image file' should be changed to only export the current print page. (Option?) Quote Link to comment
0 Matthew Giampapa Posted May 14, 2002 Share Posted May 14, 2002 No, the print changes were necessary for OS X support, but there are some very good things in store for the built in image export command from VectorWorks. Matthew GiampapaNNA Technical Support Quote Link to comment
0 Petri Sakkinen Posted May 14, 2002 Author Share Posted May 14, 2002 Well, I hope you get the future changes right as comes to a streamlined production line of high-quality raster graphics. I, for one, run VW, ArtLantis, PhotoShop, Word and PageMaker simultaneously to get the job done and high-resolution TIFFs are an absolute necessity. (I need layer transfer modes, so EPS is pretty mcuh useless, as is PDF.) Just once, get expert help from someone who actually does these things in the real world. (Not me!) Quote Link to comment
0 Petri Sakkinen Posted May 16, 2002 Author Share Posted May 16, 2002 Tried VW 9.0.1 - no luck. Still getting Error 4. Quote Link to comment
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Petri Sakkinen
I am having serious problems with the old mainstay of CAD DTP - Print2Pict.
Usually it works, but occasionally it does not, but crashes VW, with error code 4 (divide by zero).
The strange thing is that the problems appeared, I think, in MacOS 9/VW 8.5 combination, then by and large went away with VW 9 - now they are back.
The files & print areas are fairly large (I often need A2 image files at 300dpi).
Unfortunately, M. Raoult has not updated his fabulous piece of software since 1996. Maybe I have an extension conflict or something? Any ideas?
MacOS 9.2.2 VW 9.5.1
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