printing problem

tombur · Post by **tombur** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:59 pm

Hi. I have problem with printing *.tif files with robotask. In my system *.tif files are opened by program XnView but when I want to print with robotask then the *.tif file is opened with windows built-in image preview instead of print.

tombur · Post by **tombur** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:11 am

is there any solution of this problem ?

Post by **Oleg** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:17 pm

RoboTask uses only default program for printing. It only uses system function for printing document and the system automatically loads registered program for this document kind.
You have to specify desired program for TIFF files in your system.
In order to do this you can right-click on desired file (in windows explorer, of course), choose "Open with" | "Choose program"

tombur · Post by **tombur** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:12 am

Oleg wrote:RoboTask uses only default program for printing. It only uses system function for printing document and the system automatically loads registered program for this document kind.
You have to specify desired program for TIFF files in your system.
In order to do this you can right-click on desired file (in windows explorer, of course), choose "Open with" | "Choose program"

I know that. I've specified program XnView to open TIFF files and when I double-click TIFF it's opened by Xnview. When I want print with robotask then it is opened by Windows image preview function and doesn't print

Post by **Oleg** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:41 am

This means that XnView doesn't support shell command "Print".
I'm afraid if you want to print your TIFF in XnView you have to do standard operations:

1. Open TIFF document
2. Wait some time
3. Send some keystroke in order to get XnView to print opened document (Ctrl-P or another. See XnViev documentation)
4. Close XnView

tombur · Post by **tombur** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:59 am

If so, then maybe I can find another program with support of this command. Thanks

tombur · Post by **tombur** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:54 pm

The program that solved this porblem is IrfanView and it can be done by using command C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe and parameter c:\file.tif/print in Run App/Open Document