Leader: Like, I guess, many of you, my cashflow is at a premium.
History: I got Win 7 HPE free with my 64-bit HP desktop pc and purchased it for my 32-bit pc [after following MSN's instructions to clean up Control Panel problems and ruining my XP Prof which was on that pc when purchased and wouldn't reinstall from the back-up disk - fortunately, I still had XP HE on a separate disk]. Anyway, I needed to continue running my COREL 6 [cost about £200 originally, can't afford the newest version], and it can only run on XP, so virtuality was the answer. After trying about 4 virtual-machine freeware packages [again, upgrading to Win 7 Pro or Ult to run Virtual XP wasn't an affordable option], I found VMWare. Their player is freeware, but one needs to upgrade to Workstation to use usb support for printers. There is a printer option, but it's only for Serial interface, and I tried a "translator" package to emulate the serial port, but no file would go to the printers. No error messages: just no-go.
I installed all my HP printer software into XP/VMWare, and create a .PRN file in COREL, then drag this out into the Host environment to FROGMORERAWPRINT [which seems to be the only solution when print-to-file from DOS no longer exists], but there's no real end-product quality control.
Q: Does anyone know a cheapskate solution, please?
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