Casmate Pro Plotter Drivers

Hi I have a customer that runs the CASmate-Pro program and for some reason today it come up and say: Can not run CASmate-Pro New-Hermes: The program has expired Has anyone come across this problem before? He has it running on Win98 First Edition, but would like to run on WinXP if possible. Thanks for any input with this problem.

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Visitor Member # 685 posted June 02, 2004 04:43 PM I have Casmate Pro 6.04. All of a sudden, it won't output to my plotter (Roland 1860). When I hit plot, the loading bar appears, then I get the message: CAS_WIN caused a general protection fault in module PLOTMATE.DLL at 00a.

Then, Casmate shuts down. When I close down the computer, I get the message: Fatal Exception OE has occured at 0028:C0034FE3 in VDX IFSMGR(01)+0000297 I rebooted, then tried plotting by using the 'plot to comm' option (in the plot window) which worked, but only once. Then I recieve the same message, and Casmate shuts down. I tried reionstalling the drivers, didn't work. Reinstalled Casmate, now the icon is gray where you choose the plot options. I've got to get up and running, especially since I'm leaving on vacation Friday morning! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-------------------- Tim Whitcher Adrian, MI From: Adrian, MI Registered: Mar 1999 IP: Visitor Member # 4704 posted June 02, 2004 04:54 PM I really wish I could help. We use the same software and have had that problem in the past. Usually a reboot takes care of it. I have called ScanVec Amiable and they will only talk if I give them a credit card number. Corel draw x5 serial number installation code activation code free.

Kinda sounds like some Gerber threads I have read in the past. Good luck -------------------- Jerry VanHorn, Pres. Pure Sports Designs, LLC Pro Sign Design / United Wholesale Signs West Liberty, OH 937-465-0595 866-942-3990 Since 1990 From: West:Liberty, OH Registered: May 2004 IP: Visitor Member # 2146 posted June 02, 2004 05:03 PM I sure hope you don't design in Casmate. I take it your computer is getting up there in age as well. My Flexi kinda did the same thing and I upgraded it to the latest (V6 at the time and they let me keep the old dongle), I thought my dongle went bad, for the heck of it (months later)I put it on my wifes compuuter and it worked fine, I toore the old computer down and nooticed my port went bad. With older software like that and an old computer you might try another older computer, but even if that works, you are looking at a software that is no longer supported or made so if you get it to work start archiving your files too.ai or.eps while you have the chance or upgrade to flexi which II believe opens.scv files. Oho basti dorasani mp3juices. Either way your gonna have to pay.

-------------------- Rick Chavez Hemet, CA From: Hemet,CA U.S.A. Registered: Jun 2001 IP: Visitor Member # 685 posted June 02, 2004 05:17 PM I have Flexi, but haven't learned it as yet. Please, anybody have a solution? -------------------- Tim Whitcher Adrian, MI From: Adrian, MI Registered: Mar 1999 IP: Resident Member # 2247 posted June 02, 2004 05:25 PM when you say 'all of a sudden' are yu sure there are no clues in things you may have done that led up to this? If not, Ricks 'dongle gone bad' scenario sounds like a possibility, or bad port which of course would be better.

As far as your greyed out plot options, I know when I've been trouble shooting sometimes in a rush I had tried to open a new blank page & charge into plot mode to check my settings or something, but I've learned that you have to draw a box or a letter or something to get the plot icon accessible, so thought I'd mention that just in case you tried the same thing. I bought Flexi 7.0 almost 2 years ago, & I've still stuck with the crippled CasMate limping along in its W98 world, just because I'm so capable & effecient in that program compared to learning something new. I will warn you that it opens CasMate files, but any text that has not been converted to outlines will have kerning distortions & corruptions that will be noticable on layouts where lines of copy no longer fit the spaces they belong in. But for loose lines of copy, that could mess you up on reorders where you think things will cut like they did last time you opened them in CasMate. Also, since you mentioned reinstalling things, & you mention different problems & errors, could it be that re0installing resolved one of the original issues. But created a new unrelated one that is a result of not getting your settings correct?