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- From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: ASCII textfile printer driver
- Message-ID: <fgd3.03hl@nifty.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:50:33 EST
- References: <1id8cjINNhhe@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1993Jan6.161130.3700@nic.csu.net>
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- In article <1993Jan6.161130.3700@nic.csu.net> gibsonst@sonoma.edu (Stephen Gibson) writes:
- >
- >In article <1id8cjINNhhe@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> droufa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Donald J Roufa) writes:
- >>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,
- >
- >Pardon me, but wouldn't it be easier to use your applications "Save As...
- >Text" option (or something similar). Or you could use a text editor such as
- >Notepad, or NDW's Desktop Editor, or even a shareware text editor. What
- >benefits does printing ASCII text to disk give you?
-
- When you edit a file with Notepad, Write, or Works for Windows you get
- carriage returns at the end of a paragraph. In Notepad you can turn on Word
- Wrap to see lines stop at the right edge of the window. In the other
- programs word wrap is automatic. Unfortunately, when you "Save As... Text"
- all that nice formatting is lost. The file is written with carriage returns
- at the end of paragraphs, not at the end of each line.
-
- If you're sending the file somewhere that expects a carriage return every
- 60 or 80 characters those long lines will really foul up things. If the
- "Generic / Text Only" printer driver worked properly you could specify the
- margins you wanted and the file would be written with a carriage return at
- the end of each line for you. The idea is to have the computer add the
- carriage returns so you don't have to do it manually.
-
- One solution I've found is WordPerfect 4.2, which puts a "soft return" at
- the end of each line. When you save the file as ASCII it translates those
- soft returns into real carriage returns. I don't know if the newer versions
- of WordPerfect will do that and I don't think it makes sense to buy
- WordPerfect just to get carriage returns at the end of each line. Not every
- already has the program.
-
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