Printing on Windows Systems
When you install Rational Statemate on Windows systems, the following output devices are defined:
●DEFAULT_PRINTER
- Prints to the default Windows printer.
●LOCAL_PRINTER
- Prints to a local printer.
●ASCII
- Prints ASCII files.
●WORD
- Uses WORD as a virtual printer. This device is used to print graphics to a Windows non-PostScript default printer.In addition, you can create a new output device that prints to another printer. For example:
Printing to this device calls the following Windows command line:
The output device
DEFAULT_PRINTER
(which is defined automatically during installation) is defined as follows:The keyword
DEFAULT_PRINTER
is replaced with the “share name” of the default printer, which is retrieved from Windows.Note: Some print operations (such as printing a chart from the workarea) allow you to choose an output device, whereas other print operations (such as printing the workarea tree) use the definition in the preferences Default Postscript Device and Default ASCII Device as the output device.