> I've installed labview and had it working without any problems until two
> months ago. When I try printing a screen (with the VI running and while
> it's not) it would crash. I would have to reboot a few times until
> labview no longer crashes. There's a few PCI/ISA slots open, but all
> the IRQs are taken up (I can't install any more devices).
>
> The error message I get is:
>
> Failure: "textmgr.c", line 3651
> LabVIEW version 5.1
> For assistance in resolving...
>
Check which printer drivers you have installed. This line number, and most
errors in the text, image, and draw managers indicate that an error was
returned from the Windows GDI functions. These functions aren't very
informative about why they fail, they either work or they fail with
an error.
S
o, check that the printer driver you have installed makes sense for the
printer that you are using. You may also want to look for an updated
version of the printer driver. If these don't solve the problem, then
you might do the same for the video driver. While printing, both the
print and video drivers are used, and often printing problems are caused
by a buggy video driver. Check to see if there are later versions of
either and give them a shot.
Another thing you can do is to work around the buggy drivers by using
another type of printing. In the preferences printing page, LV lets
you choose between three types of printing. Standard printing uses the
print manager to do as much of the printing as possible. Bitmap printing
does the printing using the video driver and sends bitmaps to the printer.
Postscript uses neither and sends generated postscript directly to the
printer -- this is obviously for postscript printers only.
Greg McKaskle
