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Get error when dragging file onto printer shortcut
I have a piece of softeware for managing printing (FinePrint). Dragging a
file onto a shortcut to the printer generates the following error -: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in My Computer by clicking View and then clicking Folder Options." I have created a file associations so that a double-click on a file generated by the application starts it up again. This works OK. The file associations with actions take the form -: open "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\fpdisp5a.exe" "%1" print"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\fpdisp5a.exe" "%1" I'm puzzled about the failure of drag and drop. Any ideas? -- Regards Stephen Ford, Surrey, UK |
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Get error when dragging file onto printer shortcut
When you drop the document on the printer icon the system tells you which
application does not have the required association. That application is the one that must have an association that enables it to print the document. FinePrint is not a printing application - it simply provides printer management functions through the printer driver, so the associations for Fine Print are not relevant in this circumstance. You need to check what associations have been established for the file type that you are dropping, you need to ensure that the file type association has a 'print' action, you need to ensure that the application supports a command line option to load and print, and you need to ensure that the 'print' action invokes the application with the load and print command line option enabled. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) "Stephen Ford" wrote in message ... I have a piece of softeware for managing printing (FinePrint). Dragging a file onto a shortcut to the printer generates the following error -: "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in My Computer by clicking View and then clicking Folder Options." I have created a file associations so that a double-click on a file generated by the application starts it up again. This works OK. The file associations with actions take the form -: open "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\fpdisp5a.exe" "%1" print"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\fpdisp5a.exe" "%1" I'm puzzled about the failure of drag and drop. Any ideas? -- Regards Stephen Ford, Surrey, UK |
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Get error when dragging file onto printer shortcut
Jeff
Thanks for your response. Have just realised from what you said that it's the FinePrint program that needed a shortcut, not the FinePrint printer. It works fine now. Regards Stephen Ford |
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