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- From: droufa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Donald J Roufa)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: ASCII textfile printer driver
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:16:19 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- Does anyone know of or have access to a MS-Windows 3.x printer driver
- which can be used to print plain ASCII text to a disk file for
- purposes of transmitting the files via email and/or other electronic
- media? The printer should strip all print attributes (bold,
- underline, italics, super- and subscripting, etc.) so as not to garble
- the textfile. Unfortunately, the "Generic/Text Only" printer driver
- supplied with Windows 3.1 attempts to implement some of the attributes
- the best ways that it can. For example, if Windows text is bold, then
- the Generic printer driver overprints it three times by issuing a
- carriage return without a line feed. While this is nice when using a
- printer, it really messes up a textfile saved to disk.
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- If you know where or how I can obtain such a "vanilla" printer driver
- for Windows 3.1, please respond to me by Email at the address below.
- Thanks much for your help.
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- Don Roufa DROUFA@MATT.KSU.KSU.EDU
- Division of Biology Kansas State Univ. Manhattan, KS 66506
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