Has anyone experienced any problems with printing Excel spreadsheets on
Cluster machines (ours are, for the time being, running an NT4 desktop) from
within Blackboard? If not, I'll quite happily blame someone else!!! :-)
Stephen
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> Subject: RE: Printing Problems (fwd)
>
> The problems that Clive and myself investigated regarding printing an
> Excel spreadsheet from the Blackboard system (where several thousand
> pages of nothing were spooled to the printer) were down to some printing
> commands embedded in the document itself (there was reference to a
> specific driver).
>
> This only came into effect when the document was embedded in a pair of
> nested framesets (as created by Blackboard, but totally repeatable
> outside of the system). We were able to copy the contents of the
> spreadsheet into a clean document (obviously without any printer
> references in it), replace this in the nested framesets and print
> without any problems.
>
> I am yet to be convinced that this problem is specific to the UCS setup,
> but it certainly only occurs as a result of the way that the document
> was produced (or the system that it was produced on).
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Stephen McCready - UCS and Learning and Teaching Support Unit
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