[moneydance] Should I be root or user to install preview version 609?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Saturday 21 June 2008, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 June 2008, Larry Alkoff wrote:
> >> The newly installed Moneydance 609 did not print at all.
> >> I print with CUPS which normally works fine.
> >>
> >> Java Version: 1.6.0_06
> >> Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
> >>
> >> I sure wish this would get fixed.
> >
> > I'm printing OK with CUPS so here are the details:
> >
> >
> > Kubuntu  8.04
> > MD  609
> > JRE = that which I downloaded with MD which has a date on the JRE
> > directory of 1-21-07   (inidcates it is from 1.6 but I can't find a
> > specific version ID) the date of 'java' and the 'java_vm'  within the JRE
> > directory is 11-29-06
> >
> > I've never had much luck using the supplied jre that comes with MD but
> > this last one works.  I used to use  Blackdown 1.4 to print with but it
> > is no longer supplied with 8.04.
>
> Hello Bruce and thanks for your information.
>
> The first time I installed MD today was _without_ the built-in Java.
>
> The dates of the files in the /usr/local/moneydance/jre/bin were all
> 12/15/06.
>
> To load the version of MD _with_ built-in Java I first copied the
> /usr/local/moneydance directory to /usr/local/moneydance.old to preserve
> it.
>
> The dates of the new jre/bin files were all 2/22/08 but it doesn't print
> either.
>
> I wonder if there is something different in out configurations.
>
> The version of java I use in the machine (not the one for MD) is:
>
> java -version
> java version "1.6.0_06"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode)
>

> In the new MD 609, help -> about reports:
> Java Version: 1.6.0_06
> Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
>     but no build number.
>

Here it is:

Java Version: 1.6.0
Java Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.

> I tried running java the executable in the /usr/local/moneydance/jre/java
> but it just gives an error message
> Error: no `server' JVM at
> `/usr/local/moneydance/jre/lib/i386/server/libjvm.so'.
>
> How about your printing preferences?
>
> I have Printing method java2 and Font sans serif 10 point.
> Do you have the same?

Same  but sans serif 9 point

>
> Unfortunately Sean has reported that he does not have a Linux machine so
> cannot test printing.  There are many who have problems and a very few
> that are printing merrily along.  I used to print ok a few years ago
> with Sun Java but not since then.
>


> Do you think it could be something about our cups?
> My printer is a HP LaserJet 4100.

Hee...   I use an HP LJ  4000TN   so you can't get much closer than that.

Howsomever.....

I *DO* create a 'raw' printer and I do recall that that was key to getting 
things to print right...   I used to run a check program under dosemu and it 
would send some binary stuff to the printer..   The 4000 would light up... 
and then light down.  Nothing printed.

But I just printed a check to the 4000 using  'lp'  which is the default, and 
it seemed to print just fine so that can't be the problem.

Don't know...  printing has always been an on-and-off proposition but I was 
always able to find a workaround.

Tell ya what, the tar-ball for my jre is about 30mb.   If you want it, do you 
have a place I can send it?   Or I can probably find a place.