Since I have to use Maple 13 at work I installed it in my F11 machine - it worked for everything I tested, but refused to print (not printers came up in the printing dialogue). It turned out that this is due to the embedded java JRE being incompatible with F11, and it was necessary to make Maple use another version of java. I initially made it point to the Iced Tea default java in F11, and printing was then possible but there were many misplaced characters and it was not properly usable, so I resorted to to using Sun Java. If anyone else has been hit by this issue you may want to see the step by step instructions to making it work I prepared at:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mdc1/maple13_printing.html
It would have been nice to use the open source java but in this instance I needed to get it working as quickly as possible and only using the SUN jre gave me a route to an operational system. If anyone has an alternative way to get printing working in Maple13 please let me know.
mike cloaked wrote:
Since I have to use Maple 13 at work I installed it in my F11 machine
- it worked for everything I tested, but refused to print (not
printers came up in the printing dialogue). It turned out that this is due to the embedded java JRE being incompatible with F11, and it was necessary to make Maple use another version of java.
I think printing is just plain broken. It is for our setup too (mixed F-8, F-10, EL-5 boxes).
I will be reporting the problem to maple shortly, I suggest you do the same.
-- Rex
Bugzilla from rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
mike cloaked wrote:
Since I have to use Maple 13 at work I installed it in my F11 machine
- it worked for everything I tested, but refused to print (not
printers came up in the printing dialogue). It turned out that this is due to the embedded java JRE being incompatible with F11, and it was necessary to make Maple use another version of java.
I think printing is just plain broken. It is for our setup too (mixed F-8, F-10, EL-5 boxes).
I will be reporting the problem to maple shortly, I suggest you do the same.
Printing has been broken for me for several releases of Maple whichever version of Fedora I have been using the past couple of years. However with the replacement of the java jre as per my link it works 100% for me in Maple13 running in Fedora 11.
I don't know what version of java they embedded in their install disk but I think that is the main culprit - but yes reporting to Maple devs is certainly a good idea. However this also highlights a problem with Iced Tea - till now I have not had a need to use anything other than the open source java and it is a shame I now have to install Sun Java to get Maple to work!
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Rex Dieter