On 12/04/2012 22:58, george [dicegeorge] wrote:
On 10/04/12 18:20, Jim Hawkins wrote:
When I get a new PC it'll be Windows 7, but what are the pros and cons of
the two differebt bit sizes ?
I've heard you can't copy stuff from XP machines to 64 bit Win 7
machines.
Is that true ?
I'd like to copy .jpg and .pdf files, Outlook Express folders and MS Word
.doc files. Are those a problem, and if so, are there any workarounds or
conversion utilities available ?

Jim Hawkins



keep your old xp machine and your old printer for printing,
turn them on when needed,
the win7 machine should be able to network to them
which should be easier than all this virtual malarky?

Alas it does not really help... the actual print data are generated by
the driver running on the machine doing the printing. The network
machine sharing the printer is simply acting as a relay - accepting
bytes from the network, and stuffing them into the printer.

Hence why when you install a shared printer you have the option of
including drivers for platforms other than the OS of the machine doing
the sharing. That way when a user makes a connection to the shared
printer, they can automatically suck the required driver files from the
machine doing the serving - even if its a different windows version.

For printers that accept a standardised print language (e.g. PCL5, PCL6,
Postscript etc), you may be able to find a workaround using a driver for
a similar machine - possibly at the expense of not having an exact
feature match between the printer, and controls in the driver. For the
so called GDI printers that have very limited CPU capabilities, and
expect the host machine to do all the rasterisation first, and basically
deliver a pixel stream to the printer you are going to have a harder
time without the appropriate driver for your platform.

(workarounds there would include printing to file using a recognised
format like PDF or postscript, and delivering it to a networked location
the print server can see - having a periodic process on that which then
prints that file locally using its own driver)


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Cheers,

John.

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