Why does it always happen at the worst possible time?

[richardgore]

I'm running Vectorworks 11 on a Mac, which I've just upgraded to OSX 10.5. I've just tried to print, onto a Designjet 100, a drawing which I MUST have for tomorrow and yet - you've guessed it - it's printed incorrectly.

I've read, on this site, that VW are not supporting any version earlier than 12.5 but is there ANYTHING I can do to get this drawing printed, or even sent as a readable pdf, so I can print it from another Mac. I will be upgrading but there just isn't time right now.

All help, and more strong black coffee, greatly appreciated.

Richard

[Guest]

The only option here is to revert the OS to 10.3 or earlier. Even Tiger is not officially supported on VW 11.

You may be able to create a PDF or export to an image file, then try to print that through the printer/plotter.

[islandmon]

Leopard Printing requires CUPS 1.3.5 ( in your browser type >http://localhost:631/ ) what happens ? CUPS set-up can be a little tricky because it provides so many options to set-up initially and often "breaks" during upgrades. OSX comes with substantial HP Drivers and there is also the OpenSource GutenPrint for most legacy printers & plotters.

It's difficult to give more specific advice as to your printing problems.

Take a look at your CUPS Log via Console app.