Borerless printing observations

Hi gang,
I am in the process of sending off an Aperture book to one of the non-Apple services. It was recommended that I make the page size 8.5x11 borderless in the print settings dialog box. Unfortunately, my laptop did not seem to list borderless as an option anywhere. It occured to me that maybe my desktop would have this option, as it was plugged in to a printer that could print borderless pages. Sure enough, the print settings dialog gave me the option for borderless pages when that printer was selected.
I guess in retrospect this may be obvious to some, but I noted when I did a search that others had been struggling with the no borderless problem as I had.
It seems strange that if you are printing to a PDF that there is not some form of generic printer driver that could be selected that includes the borderless option.
Cheers!

OK, I have had this problem too. I sent off my PDF to SharedInk.com and realised that the save to PDF in Aperture does NOT print borderless by default. The problem for me is that as I had no printer that could print borderless, I could not save a PDF as borderless.
Pretty useless!
So, I scoured the Internet and found this:
http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/dan/archives/2005/03/15/add-a-virtual-pdf-pr inter-to-mac-os-x-or-how-to-save-copies-of-completed-pdf-forms-from-acrobat-read er/
Allows you to install a PDF printer, which is accessible as a printer in Aperture (allows you to set printing to borderless). In the preview you'll see that the borders have gone! Once you've set this up, you can actually use the Save PDF instead of the print button, since when I tried to print using the new PDF printer I couldn't actually open the resulting PDF. The Aperture saved PDF (now borderless) now works though, so in effect the installed PDF printer driver is really just a dummy as you can save to PDF and still use the borderless printing functionality that is only initialised once you have installed a printer driver that is capable of this.
Hope this works for you. Good news for anyone that doesn't have a borderless printer.
Rob

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At the moment I am running Windows XP under VMWare to print from Acrobat, which is plainly silly.
Any useful* observations, suggestions or workarounds welcome.
*Needless to say, "It's Adobe's problem" or similar are not acceptable responses. It may well be an interaction between the Adobe's applications and Apple's printing system and/or driver of course; in that case the companies need to collaborate to solve the issue.

Save to PDF in TextEdit - Error While Printing

When I try to save a text file to PDF I receive the error message - "Error while printing". This only seems to be happening to text files I open or create in TextEdit. It works fine if I log in as a different user. I've run repair permissions and also deleted a couple of com.apple.print plist files in my user library, but the error remains.
Is there anything else I should try short of reinstalling TextEdit?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Rick

On OS X 10.8.2, with TextEdit, I can open or create text documents and export to PDF without any issue.
Here are the two preference tabs and settings that work for me. You can single click on the images for a larger version.
New Document
Open and Save
PDF documents on OS X are created with binary content, which is the junk you observe.

Print to PDF; Print to Compressed PDF; Print to Web Receipts menu, MISSING

I have been trying for several days now to restore printer prefs for a HP Officejet 7410.
Under Mac OS 10.5, and after reinstalling HP software and drivers from www.hp.com, the drop down menu for PDF option is missing entirely! As a work around... have tried 'file > save as', then choose pdf option. (This option only works in a very limited number of programs! I have gotten accustomed to 'printing to pdf' for archiving and password protecting key docs, and emails, et al; and therefore would like to regain this essential feature.
Question is, are others having this same problem with other printers, or have I missed some critical step in setting up my printer? (I already deleted all printers , then created a new printer profile from the print&fax menu under system preferences).
Any thoughts or useful observations, are Greatly Appreciated.
Sincerely,
Geoff

John.
+Thanks for reply.+
Re: +What steps have you taken to restore printer prefs?+
Originally installed Leopard (OS 10.5) using the *'UPGRADE to MAC OS'* selection.
Went to system preferences > deleted all printers. Clicked "+" button to add HP 7400 Series printer via bonjour. Added other virtual printers (FaxSTF). HP 7410 Printer dialog box was still missing "print to PDF" feature, and other features, so downloaded and installed current software and drivers for HP Officejet 7410. Again deleted all printers from 'Print & Fax' dialog box of System Preferences. Added printers Officejet 7400 Series ; and Officejet 7400 Series FAX.
Still have no "print to pdf" functions; can not use HP color rendering technology, only colorsync is available. Control over ink density, color temperature, and other previous print dialog choices are all MISSING IN ACTION.
I have rebooted from a cloned external HD using prior OS (10.4.10) all printer features function properly. So have concluded that Leopard is not 'prime-time' ready as far as many third party printers. Don't know when either HP will update it's drivers, or when Apple will create a update for devise drivers. Imagine there'll be some finger pointing for source of problem between HP & Apple. Guess will be returning to OS 10.4.10 until these bugs are ironed out.
If you have any other thoughts or suggestions, please drop me a note.
Thanks,
Geoff

On the printing slowness of Postscript produced by the JVM from calls to Graphics.drawString() (Linux/Unix)

Happy new year,
before the holidays my attention was drawn to an issue that supposedly the Postscript produced by the JVM is too big and hence too slow. Here are my findings.
The issue
Text printing via CUPS to native Postscript printers can be slow. Printing a terms and conditions page (17000 characters/page) takes three and a half minutes to print on a Dell 2330 dn laser printer (96 MB,Max speed 33 ppm). The file is about 8 MB in size. To contrast that, rendering the text to a buffered image with 300 DPI and printing the result produces 7 MB of output which prints in 30 seconds on the same printer. More measures for different printers and documents can be found at the end of this post. The issues is registered as "JDK-4627340 : RFE: A way to improve text printing performance for postscript devices" (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4627340) and the proposed workaround is to use printer fonts.
Side remark regarding the workaround
There is a regression that prevents the workaround from working (bug 9008662 at Sun (not yet visible), bug 8023990 at OpenJDK (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023990). Without knowing what other bad side effects this might have, the issue can be resolved by setting the property "sun.awt.fontconfig". On my system I set it to the location of a "fontconfig.properties" of a JVM that does not have the bug (e.g. /home/alex/openjdk_7_b147_jun_11/openjdk/build/linux-i586/bin/java -Dsun.awt.fontconfig="/etc/java-6-openjdk/fontconfig.properties" Print2DtoStream). I also successfully tested the workaround on an Oracle JVM 1.7.0_03-b04.
Back to the main topic
How the JVM draws text if it can't use a standard printer font
Text is drawn with postscript path drawning commands such as "moveto", "lineto" or "curveto". As an example consider the word "ll" which looks something like this:
%N->short for "newpath"
N
%paint first "l"
%M->short for "moveto"
0.76875 11.06 M
%L->short for "lineto"
0.76875 2.468 L
1.823 2.468 L
1.823 11.06 L
0.76875 11.06 L
%p->short for "closepath"
P
%paint second "l"
3.649 11.06 M
3.649 2.468 L
4.703 2.468 L
4.703 11.06 L
3.649 11.06 L
P
The same text could be printed with a printer font using the command "(ll) show" which is much more compact but is available in Java only for the Postscript standard fonts and it isn't working at all right now as explained above.
Is it the file size?
My first thought was that the file size was the source of of slowness and so I wrote a small processor that would detect glyphs, normalize*1 them and place them in a dictionary. Recurring references to the same glyph were replaced by a dictionary reference (This is incidentally the fix proposed by the original author of RFE 4627340). This shrunk the file to about 11% of the original size but the processing time surprisingly doubled.
*1: With "normalizing" I mean applying a translation transform so that the smallest coordinates in the contours of a glyph are exactly 0. In addition I experimented with performing a normalizing scale transform so that all coordinates lie between 0 and 1 so that identical glyphs are detected at arbitrary positions and at different font sizes.
That led to the question to why there is such a big difference in performance between a Type 1 font dictionary and a self constructed dictionary since both contain basically the same drawing instructions. The difference is apparently that fonts are cached and user drawings are not unless explicitly told.
The Postscript "ucache" instruction
Postscript level 2 introduces the "ucache" instruction which seems to be defined for precisely this kind of problem. From the documentation:
"Some PostScript programs define paths that are repeated many times. To optimize the interpretation of such paths, the PostScript language provides a facility called the user path cache. This cache, analogous to the font cache, retains the results from previously interpreted user path definitions. When the PostScript interpreter encounters a user path that is already in the cache, it substitutes the cached results instead of reinterpreting the path definition. "
After adding "ucache" instructions to my filter the speed improved by factor 10.
To illustrate the said the "ll" text from above looked as follows after the transformation:
%definition of the glyph "l" named "p0"
/p0
ucache
0.000 0.000 1.054 8.592 setbbox
0.000 8.592 moveto
0.000 0.000 lineto
1.054 0.000 lineto
1.054 8.592 lineto
0.000 8.592 lineto
closepath
} cvlit def
G
N
0.769 2.468 translate
%draw "l" at 0.769 2.468
p0 ufill
-0.769 -2.468 translate
3.649 2.468 translate
%draw "l" at 3.649 2.468
p0 ufill
-3.649 -2.468 translate
For ucached shapes there is a special compact representation so that the same can be written as follows:
/p0
0.000 0.000 1.054 8.592
0.000 8.592
0.000 0.000
1.054 0.000
1.054 8.592
0.000 8.592
} cvlit def
G
N
0.769 2.468 translate
p0 ufill
-0.769 -2.468 translate
3.649 2.468 translate
p0 ufill
-3.649 -2.468 translate
Interestingly the speed improvement remained the same on a Chinese report that had hardly any character reuse. Upon this observation I changed the filter to not use a dictionary but so simply instruct the interpreter to cache each glyph definition and the performance remained nearly the same.
The initial "ll" text from above looks as follows after this transformation:
N
%paint first "l" cached
0.76875 2.468 1.823 11.06
0.76875 11.06
0.76875 2.468
1.823 2.468
1.823 11.06
0.76875 11.06
} ufill
%paint second "l" cached
3.649 2.468 4.703 11.06
3.649 11.06
3.649 2.468
4.703 2.468
4.703 11.06
3.649 11.06
} ufill
Note that I didn't normalize the shapes.
Why does this improve the performance so vastly if the shape is drawn only once? For a while I thought perhaps that the interpreter would consider two paths which differ only by a translation as being the same but rereading the documentation and looking at the Chinese example in which nearly all characters are unique, disproves this. The relevant part of the documentation reads:
"Caching is based on the value of a user path object. That is, two user paths are considered the same for caching purposes if all of their corresponding elements are equal, even if the objects themselves are not.
A user path placed in the cache need not be explicitly retained in virtual memory. An equivalent user path appearing literally later in the program can take advantage of the cached information. Of course, if it is known that a given user path will be used many times, defining it explicitly in VM avoids creating it multiple times.
User path caching, like font caching, is effective across translations of the user coordinate system, but not across other transformations, such as scaling or rotation. In other words, multiple instances of a given user path painted at different places on the page will take advantage of the user path cache when the current transformation matrix has been altered only by translate. If the CTM has been altered by scale or rotate , the instances will be treated as if they were described by different user paths."
An explanation that would fit the findings
The rasterizer renders the page multiple time (perhaps in order to save memory and produce horizontal strips). On the first rendering the cache is filled and reused on the subsequent renderings thereby improving performance even if all cached items are used only once.
Based upon this theory I hoped that the strip height would grow if I added more memory to the printer but this was not the case on the two printers for which I had memory to test with. Even substantial changes to the available memory (e.g. going from 32 MB to 96 MB) had no impact whatsoever on the performance.
Summary
The issue is not related to the file size as the original requester suspected but very likely due to the uncached rendering. Caching of glyphs can be achieved by using the "ucache" instruction or perhaps by placing the glyphs in font dictionaries and using the "show" operator.
Although reported in 2003, time is apparently not healing this quick enough since printers in the 10,000$ class like the Sharp MX2310U still take a full minute to print 10 pages and a desktop printer may be blocked for over an hour for the same document.
We will now try to use the CUPS filter and leave the printers configured as Postscript printers. If there is interest I can post the single file source of a CUPS filter that performs the inline conversion described. Apart from libl it requires no additional libraries and written using flex it is reasonably lightweight and fast.
I would appreciate any opinion on whether or not the proposed workaround for bug 8023990 (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8023990), namely having the system property "sun.awt.fontconfig" pointing to a working fontconfig.properties of a previously installed and working 1.6 version file, is safe.
Measures (Appendix)
"Terms and Conditions" report
Testing a single page "Terms and Conditions" report in "Arial" 8pt (I am aware that "Helvetica" is width compatible and nearly looks the same but in this particular case the line height was also relevant and as explained above, printer fonts are currently not working). The page contains 17000 characters of which some parts are bold and some italic. This is a real world example and to make things worse the requirement is to print the text on the backside of every page on a certain class of reports. I am aware that this is a bit extreme but I also felt that I couldn't dismiss it as being unreasonable.
File "Arial.ps" (7.5 MB Unmodified output of the JVM)
Printer
Printing time
Dell 2330dn 32MB/96MB
3:50 minutes
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
1:45 minutes
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
1:12 minutes
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
1 minute
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
51 seconds
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
31 seconds
Arial_inline.ps (8 MB contains "ucache" without normalization and without dictionary)
Printer
Printing time
32MB/96MB
30seconds/30seconds (Improvement by factor 7.7)
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
15 seconds (Improvement by factor 7)
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
47 seconds (Improvement by factor 1.5)
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
20 seconds (Improvement by factor 5)
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
46 seconds (Improvement by factor 1.1)
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
14 seconds (Improvement by factor 2)
Asian characters test
Testing 10 pages of Asian characters in the font "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" 12pt where each page contains 49 lines by 40 unique characters. The document contains the 30,000 characters between unicode 0x4e00 and 0x9fff. This is a nonsense stress test but it illustrates that the "ucache" speedup works even though no character is repeated in the report.
Asian.ps (52 MB Unmodified output of the JVM)
Printer
Printing time
Dell 2330dn 32MB/96MB
64 minutes
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
Not measured
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
11 minutes
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
Not measured
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
9:13 minutes
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
4:08 minutes
Asian_inline.ps (54 MB contains "ucache" without normalization and without dictionary)
Printer
Printing time
32MB/96MB
5:30 minutes (Improvement by factor 11.6)
Lexmark X658de (55 ppm, aprox. 5,000$)
Not measured
HP LaserJet 4240n 64 MB
3:48 minutes (Improvement by factor 2.9)
Kyocera Taskalfa 300ci (30 PPM, aprox. 8,000$)
Not measured
HP Color LaserJet 4650 dn 128/384MB
2:46 minutes (Improvement by factor 3.4)
Sharp MX 2310U 512MB (55ppm, aprox. 10,000$)
48 seconds (Improvement by factor 5)

Hi Sven,
Will putting the boilerplate in the trailer section allow me to still have it appearing on the back page of the main report? This is where it needs to be as far as the printed report goes - it is duplexed.
Regards
Lanny

[Urgent] How to print Line items Twice in Check Printing ??

Hi Experts,
We have got a requirement of printing the vendor invoice info(Line Items) above and below the actual check.
Eg.
Page 1
1-8 Line Items
Voided Check
1-8 Line Items
Page 2
9-16 Line Items
Voided Check
9-16 Line Items
Page 3 ..... (last Page)
17-20 Line Items
Actual Check
17-20 Line Items
Now, All the things are printing fine except dual printing of the Line items at the below of Check.
Please help me..... i am using Check print program RFFOUS_C.
If anyone can has done something like this before than please send me the code for it.
If someone requires more clarification, please ask me.
Regards,
Abhishek

Hi Abhishek,
we have done check printing here. but can u pl tell me why is the line item required to be printed below the check also??
u must have observed that in the check sapscript ( F110_PRENUM_CHCK), the main window is situated above the check window.. n the line items are coming within the main window...since the line items are dynamic data( not fixed), u have to create a window below the check n that has to be a MAIN window again for it to display multiple data.. so wen ur last page is getting called ( u need to find that out that wen is the last page getting called ), u can insert a write_form for this new main window along with the other write_form( for the earlier main window).
it can get very complex though as i dont know if this will certainly work...
is the requirement reaaly to print the line items below the check or anything else will do?? as it wud greatly reduce ur headache...

XMLP print - two steps or one step?

When we were in 11.5.9 + XMLP 4.5 (with XMLP and CM integrated configuration), to print concurrent reports via XMLP always two steps. namely, the first step produces XML file and the second step is running XML Publisher Report to feed the XML file to the template and print pdf output.
After we upgraded EBS from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10.2, the XMLP has also been upgraded to 5.0. Apperas to be (my observation) that SRS enabled reports(such as "Printed Purchase Order(Portait)", "Invoice Print Batch of Invoices", "Invoice Print Preview Report", "Invoice Print Selected Invoices", etc) can been printed in one step (no need to run the second step - run XMLP, OPP takes care of it).
However, for non-SRS programs, such as "Print purchase order", "Print Statement", "Dunning Letter Print", it still need two steps. Oracle support says, it is bug to specific report (she gave Dunning Letter Print as example) and not related to SRS.
Just wonder if any one in this forum has similar circumstances and has got any workaround.
Any help and information appreciated.

You are correct in your assessment. We created a program that submits the desired program then passes the request id, template, etc. to the xml report publisher concurrent program.
Brett

Is it not possible to print Flash embedded in PDF as you see it on screen?

Hi,
I have this problem to which I cannot find a solution. I posted my question to another mailing list but I didn't get a reaction.
It is about printing a PDF which contains Flash movies. Actually zooming is an issue too, but printing is more important.
I have attached a sample file. When opened with Adobe Reader 9.1, the first page looks OK. The charts on the
second page are wider than the page width, so that's OK too.
Zoom in; you will observe that the Flash charts will not get resized right away. To
see the effect of zooming, set the page display to "single page", page
forward/backward.
Print the file, the size of the printed Flash charts is much smaller than what is
displayed.
Am I missing something, or isn't printing PDF with embedded Flash movies 100% supported?
Thanks
Zeynep

Gavin Duff wrote:
Would like to see this fixed in a future revision
Let Apple know via
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks-author.html
(I see that Pages, on which iB Author is based, also won't show the styles drawer)

Print issue in SSRS report

Hi ,
I have a report in production server. The client took a print out of the report which is accessible from report server URL. The issue pertaining for this report is, some of the letters in the report such as 'ti' and 'le' are missing when the client is taking
a copy of that report. I went through my report design and had downloaded in pdf and other format, i havent seen or observed any kind of issue from my side. I could observe the data is fine, but, I wonder and i couldn't able to trace what went wrong and how
the letters are missing when the print out of the report is being taken. I am thankful for your answers and valuable suggestions.
Thanks & Best Regards,
Ram.

Hi Ram17,
According to your description, your report missed some letters when printing. Right?
In this scenario, you find no issue if your download the pdf format report. It supposed be to no issue on Reporting Services side because the pdf rendering is the same rendering behavior as the print view. So please check the printer and the system
environment. It has reported some similar issues in Windows XP. Please refer to a KB article below:
Print jobs initiated in a Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP point and print environment may have missing characters
Reference:
Letters missing when printing
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best Regards,
Simon Hou

My observations ( for people that have indexing and connection issues )

Since cisco takes an awful lot of time doing anything about these problems i decided to investigate the box myself today.
I followed advice from various threads and did some digging aroudn with network traffic snoopers and some other tools.
First ( and this is buried somewhere deep in the documentation ) you can NOT have ANY file or folder name that is longer than 32 characters. This is a limitation of the stupid linux they are running on ! If you have a file with longer name or foldername it may screw up the indexing.
Second : file and path names can only have alphanumerical characters and numbers and spaces in them. DO NOT USE ANY other character. it messes up the indexing I had folders named -= folder 1 =-. they never got indexed. as soon as i removed teh -= and =- the indexing kicked in .... This is again a twonkyvision / loonix problem
The box has tremendous problems with ghost devices on the network. I have on my network at home : 4 pc's running XP ( some pro some home edition ) 2 laptops with Vista. One box with Win7. One Windows home Server. One linksys Skype phone , One Roku soundbridge, one Dlink DNS323 , one ADS network drive , one Simpletech Simplestor , A HP color laserjet , a Hp 6250 , 7650 and some other HP network printer. Thru the wireless link my PDA ( iPaq) and iPhone connect once in a while too. My blu ray player is also hooked up (netflix streaming). And then there are various experimental systems ( i am an electronics engineer and i have built some gadgets that are network connected that allow me to remotely turn on lights monitor temperature etc. )
Now , the NMH does not detect correctly most of the devices. It keeps on trying to feed information to the printers ... it also tries feeding information to other NAS devices as well as to the Windows Homeserver ... It falsely identifies one of the printers as a dlink ethernet connected dvd player ...
It also has problems with devices that use static ip addresses on the network ( i set up the printers and other NAS devices with hardcoded ip addresses. so no dhcp )
So here is what i did : go to twonky configuration ( port 9000 see tony's article )
Step 1 : Yank out the ethernet cable to ANY OTHER DEVICE except the pc you are working on , your router and the NMH <- this is important
step 2 : Hit the button to erase all the devices it discovered. (reset list)
Step 3 : hit the SAVE button
step 4: UNCHECK the box next to the 'reset list' button
step 5: hit the SAVE button
Now , on the left hand side click on Maintenance
Click on ALL checkboxes under Log level. they should ALL be checked
Hit the Clear Logs button
Hit Save changes
Hit RESTART server. you wil get a file not foound error page. you will see in your browsers titlebar that the url changes to an ip address with some text behind it. remove all that text and key in :9000 and hit return. it will take you back to tonky. ( i don't know how important this step is , but i did not go in throught the device name , i used the ip address from this point on. normally it should not matter but you never know ( i have a suspicion i will explain later )
Write down this IP address. it is usefull to know.
Now since we are back in wonkyvision ( stupid half baked program ) Go back to the maintenance screen.
now hit the rebuild databse button.
You should hear disk activity now.
Hit the Show log button once. the log files should open.
you can refresh this screen by hitting the reload button in your browser.
you should see messages fly by like
21:14:40:317 LOG_SYSTEM:fsmon_add_watch inotify_add_watch (12, /share/media/photos/Moorea May 1998) returns 2045
21:14:40:317 LOG_DB:watch wd=2045 added on /share/media/photos/Moorea May 1998
21:14:40:379 LOG_DB:upnp_folder_watch_add_dir /share/media/photos/Moorea May 1998/New Folder
thnis means it is probin the entire directory structure and adding files and paths.
Let it run for a while. hitting refresh on your browser once in a while. it took a couple of hours on mine ( 76000+ pictures ... ) and a couple of hundred songs + some videos.
once disc activity ceases : go back to twonky port 9000 , go in to maintenance and hit Clear Logs button.
HitSave button
Hit restart server. you will again get an error page. get rid of the rubbish behind the ip address.and key in :9000
go to the clients and security page.
Make sure Automatic discovery is still turned OFF ( if it is on you will see in the logbooks that it attempts several times a second to connecto to anything it can find. Since the detection process is flawed it bombs out. this may overload the poor cpu in the NMH... )
Hit the reset list once more
hit save
Now turn automatic discovery on and hit Save.
go back to maintenacne and hit restart server. again on the error page : erase the garbage after the ip address and go back to port 9000.
if you now go back to client/sharing page you should see 2 possibly 3 device. one is your router , one is the pc you are working on, and the last one is the same ip address as you see in the browser. ( the ipaddress you are using to talk to the nmh )
make sure all the checkboxes before these devices are checked. and hit the save button once more.
at this point i unchecekd the automatic discovery and hit save once more. i go back to maintenance and hit restart server for the last time.
At this point the nmh restarted twonky and immediately there was a ton of disc activity. i opened the normal nmh user interface and lo and behold : the green spinning arrow started to move and progress was going forward. it increased 1% roughly ever 10 seconds or so. when it finally hit 100% everything was there. as it should be.
Now. speculation on my part
- this thing has trouble with long file names and non alphanumerical characters.
- this thing has trouble with device it incorrectly identiefies or cannot identify. this screws up wonkymedia.
- the communication between the process on the NMH (that serves the flash user interface running on your browser ) and winkymedia is going through a network port itself. There are problems. thye do not do inter process communication but go via network messages... ( this is kind of dumb as it loads the network... )
proof :
21:01:03:625 filescanner thread started
21:01:03:628 LOG_SSDPSDP_notify_packet ### SSDP sending:
NOTIFY * HTTP/1.1
HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900
CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=99999
LOCATION: http://192.168.1.66:9000/DeviceDescription.xml
NT: urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1
NTS: ssdp:alive
SERVER: Linux/2.x.x, UPnP/1.0, pvConnect UPnP SDK/1.0
the filescanner sends messages through network port 1900 to the NMH. Since the filescanner is running on the NMH ... i also have no clue what 239:255:255:250 at 190 is ...
i also see sometimes the following messages fly by
21:01:03:894 [Error] - LOG_HTTP:HTTP_get_header Cannot receive header, clientSocket=13, nBytesReceived=0
21:01:03:894 LOG_HTTP:HTTP_send_receive received no header in HTTP_send_receive, propably client closed socket, URL=http://192.168.1.66:9000/
my suspicion is that , since the various processes running on the NMH ( the indexer , the UI server and all the twonky processes) all intercommunicate through the network port , this is a problem. if the network settings get corrupted ( because false identification , notwork overload or whatever ) the thing jams up.
by cleaning out all the false identieis , letting it identify itself ( important for its own process communication ) and a pc , and then turning off the detection .this solves that problem.
limiting the filesstem to 'clean 32 char max' names solves another problem.
I also see a lot of keep-alive message fly by on the netowrk ( several a second. )
i eventually plugged in my other computers and the roku , let it autodetect for a while and turned this feature back off. Then i plugged in all other devices the NMH has no business with.
So far it still works fine.
I still do see a ton of messages fly by where the NMH is probing the network on existing devices. tey come back with 'device already validated
21:01:04:140 LOG_CLIENT_DB:The entry found in known clients list is already validated (ip=192.168.1.76)
21:01:04:140 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.76, mac=
21:01:04:140 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.76)
21:01:04:141 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Ignoring client with fixed flag = TRUE (ip=192.168.1.76)
( .76 is the pc i am working on right now. )
i don't know why they keep probing. i am not streaming anything and auto detect is turned off ..
anyway i will keep you guys posted on how this evolves.
One thing is for sure. this is another half baked ' broken source' based system.

further observations :
22:24:31:868 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.66, mac=
22:24:31:868 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:31:869 LOG_CLIENT_DB:HHetting client adaptation to 49 (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:36:878 LOG_CLIENT_DB:The entry found in known clients list is already validated (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:36:878 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.66, mac=
22:24:36:878 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:36:879 LOG_CLIENT_DB:HHetting client adaptation to 49 (ip=192.168.1.66)
22:24:37:926 LOG_CLIENT_DB:The entry found in known clients list is already validated (ip=192.168.1.76)
22:24:37:926 LOG_CLIENT_DB:checking http header for entry ip=192.168.1.76, mac=
22:24:37:926 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Checking http header to find a matching client.db entry (ip=192.168.1.76)
22:24:37:927 LOG_CLIENT_DB:Ignoring client with fixed flag = TRUE (ip=192.168.1.76)
22:2
thisnthing keeps on probing itself ... i wonder why. (.66 is the NMH .76 is my pc ... ) it is also strange it cannot retrieve its own mac address....
Oh , you can turn off the logging features again when done. it only takes time and diskspace on the NMH
And before i get flamed : the comments i make about 'broken source' : i have no gripe with linux. I have a problem with companies that grab a bunch of stuff that is free ,slap it together, sell it for a lot of money and give no support to the people that bought it. They want all the money for no effort .. they turn open source into broken source ...

SSRS 2008 R2 report prints empty spaces for html content till end of page

Hi
I need to display records containing long html content say each record of different size ranging from 5 lines to 3-5 pages.
Issue observed is:
When a record complete is printing say half the page and subsequent record is bigger then half a page, the subsequent record is printed on the next page rather than continue immediately after the previous record is completed.
Is their any property or any other solution to resolve the issue. Print on next page is not set.
Nikesh Shah

Hi Nikesh,
As per my understanding, I think the issue is caused by the blank space in the report body. In order to get rid of the blank space when print the report, please refer to the following steps:
Click on Report > Report Properties > Layout tab
Make a note of the values for Page width, Left margin, Right margin
Close and go back to the design surface
In the Properties window, select Body
Click the + symbol to expand the Size node
Make a note of the value for Width
Please check the Page Break settings on all your report items and make sure the Body Width + Left margin + Right margin less than or equal to Page width, just like the equalities below:
(Body Width + Left margin + Right margin) <= (Page width)
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
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Printer dialog page doesn't give me landscape/portrait Orientation option

When I try to print something, and bring up the printer dialog window, I no longer have the option of swapping between landscape and portrait.
I used to be able to hit command-P, then select Layout, where I was given a choice between Orientation: a graphic up for Portrait and sideways for Layout. I would also get a small print preview window where I could see each page formatted.
Now all I get it is a small icon with the digit 1 where the preview used to be, and no Orientation option. Layout Direction is there, as are other options, but not that one. And now things only print in Landscape; I can't change print jobs to Portrait.
I deleted (really renamed) my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs.plist file, and then restarted my application, as I saw that as a suggestion in a different thread, alas no joy.
Background: I'm running Mavericks OS 10.9.1. I have an old Macbook on the same OS level; it works on that machine. The screen is failing on the old one so I'm trying to get the new one up & running. When I bought this new one I tried to clone it using Time Machine but that failed (very long story) so I had to manually copy over User and Library directories to get this one going. I'm guessing something didn't get copied over right, but regardless I should be able to select this as an option on any print.
To make matters more confusing, it didn't work on ANY app at first, but as I've poked around on it tonight (3-4 hours) it started working on some apps but not others. I have no idea why. Weird.
I really need help; I'm desparate!
Thanks.

So your observations and especially your last question was a very good one.
I checked the old laptop (where it was working) and the print dialog boxes appear to be consistent across machines, but different across applications. In Safari I do get something closer to what you have, in Firefox (and other apps) it's what I showed. I could have sworn they all acted the same, I thought that pop-up window was OS-generated, but maybe not.
You're on to something here. I'm checking how it works with File -> Page Setup now. It looks like they moved the Orientation option over there rather than in the print dialog box ... depending on exactly what application it is. That seems to be the case in Firefox at least.
I've got a number of apps to run through and check, and it's real late so I'll have to finish my checking tomorrow. But this is hopeful. My tax software is where I first noticed it (IRS forms get truncated when you print them landscape, sigh) but you may have pointed me in the right direction.
Confirmation later, but even so thanks for now!

How can I save a Adobe document to print duplex for other users.

I want to create a doc using Adobe and be able to set it to print duplex by other users without the user needed to go into printer settings.
All the user has to do is click print on there computer and the doc. will print duplex. The users have Adobe Reader installed.

It is possible to set a default value for the Adobe Reader or Acrobat print dialog on a document basis. After the document is created, go to Document Properties (Ctrl-D), and select the Advanced tab. Go to the DuplexMode setting. Normally, this is set to Simplex, i.e. single sided printing. You can also set it to either Duplex Flip Long Edge or Duplex Flip Short Edge depending upon your needs. Duplex Flip Long Edge is normally used for printing of “portrait” orientation content with Duplex Flip Short Edge typically used for printing of “landscape” orientation content. Then save the PDF file (typically, “save as” should be used).
Important notes: Obviously, this only works if the PDF file is being opened by one of the applications that even bothers to look at these settings. Adobe Reader and Acrobat do. Don't count on MacOS Preview or other applications to do so! Furthermore (and somewhat obviously), this setting is only observed with print devices that directly support duplex printing. And finally, this does not force the user to print duplex. It simply pre-populates the print dialog; the user can change the setting.
- Dov

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