How to wake a 'sleeping' Print dialog

Dec 19, '05 05:19:00AM

Contributed by: pi314

When your input method is active (i.e. as I am a Japanese, a black "A" is usually in the menu bar instead of the American flag), if you print from an old application (ie AppleWorks) which shows a print dialog window instead of a sheet type dialog, you often can't change the number of copies or page range in the dialog window. It seems like the text boxes on the dialog window are "sleeping" and won't wake to be changed.

The fix is quite funny. Just 'shake' the dialog window, by changing the input method, then they wake up. I found an English explanation of the process.

[robg adds: I haven't run into this glitch before, and I couldn't reproduce it using 10.4.3 and AppleWorks 6.2.9. However, based on the linked article, it seems the problem is real enough, so here's the solution if you're among those affected.]

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