4.2 slow printing for text only reporting

[Cincinnati Andy]

When printing automatically my printer prints painfully slowly in text only format. It will print perhaps half a page then pause for 30-45 seconds then print the rest of the page, pause for another 30-45 seconds and so on. I just uprgraded from 3.7 to 4.2 and 3.7 did not have this issue. Any suggestions?

[T Miller]

Do you have a usb cable for printer?

[Gary McElwain]

Andy
I have the same problem with printing the report in 4.2MR2. Yes I have a USB cable. I went back to using 3.7MR2 for this reason.

Sheffield RS-50
MP400
3.5MR2, 3.7MR2 & 4.2MR2
Windows 2000

[Cincinnati Andy]

USB doesn't seem to help. Not only that but Microsoft Word has a heck of a time opening the file. I thought I might take a back door way around it by turning off the printing and only saving the file, but when I went to the saved document to open it in Word it took even longer to open and print. This is very frustrating!!

[Joe_Hunt]

I'm having trouble saving a report as a PDF........keep getting an error that says Unable to load the PDF drivers, is 'cdintf.dll' installed correctly. Seems to be the only problem I've had with 4.2 so far.

[rangerboat72]

Andy
I have the same problem with printing the report in 4.2MR2. Yes I have a USB cable. I went back to using 3.7MR2 for this reason.

Sheffield RS-50
MP400
3.5MR2, 3.7MR2 & 4.2MR2
Windows 2000

Wait a minute, 4.2MR2 There's already a MR2???

[JaredHess]

When printing automatically my printer prints painfully slowly in text only format. It will print perhaps half a page then pause for 30-45 seconds then print the rest of the page, pause for another 30-45 seconds and so on. I just uprgraded from 3.7 to 4.2 and 3.7 did not have this issue. Any suggestions?

I don't know if this is related to the slow printing, but by default, you will notice that if you print to an .rtf file they are quite large even for a small part program. This is because in order to support the newer reporting approach the program lays out various items, even a text only report, into text objects in the .rtf file. This might be why word takes a while to open a report too (of course part of it might be your version of Word too. The newer versions of word seem to take longer to load than old versions).

You could try switching to an old style text only .rtf report and printing that and see if that speeds things up. See the help file topic: "Output to a File" and under rtf outputs see info on switching to an old style report.

Of course depending on what you are reporting, some of the newer functionality and information might not carry over into the old style report.

[JaredHess]

I'm having trouble saving a report as a PDF........keep getting an error that says Unable to load the PDF drivers, is 'cdintf.dll' installed correctly. Seems to be the only problem I've had with 4.2 so far.

Just a guess but there might be a driver conflict with an older version of pcdmis. Or maybe that .dll is having problems. You might want to try reinstalling 4.2 and see if that fixes it.

[Joe_Hunt]

Just a guess but there might be a driver conflict with an older version of pcdmis. Or maybe that .dll is having problems. You might want to try reinstalling 4.2 and see if that fixes it.

You were right Jared, reinstalled 4.2 and its working fine now.