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From: jmd@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Jim Dumser)
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Subject: Re: Help: WordPerfect printing to a PostScript file
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In article <90Oct18.222136edt.21887@me.utoronto.ca> sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes:
>To print to a file in Word Perfect, you first have to use Shift-F7 to go
>to the print menu. Then pick select printer and choose the laser printer of
>your choice. Still under select printer, choose option 3 (edit) to edit
>the driver. Another menu will show up to allow you to change the port,
>font, size, etc. Pick the Port option. Instead of choosing LPT1, COM1, etc.,
>chooose OTHER. This will allow you to type in the output filename. After
>you are done, F7 to exit back to the top level. No whenever you print, the
>output goes to the designated filename.

There's one more step, depending on how you intend to print the file.
Someone here is doing their thesis in WP 5.0, and so I know!  There appears
to be a bug in the Postscript drivers: _t (one of the procedures defined in
the prolog) is always followed by ONLY a carriage return -- no linefeed.
The guy here was shipping the file up to a Unix machine to have it spooled
there, and he uploaded the file using Kermit.  Kermit removes the lone
carriage return (other "text" protocols may as well).  He had to send it as
a binary file (set filetype binary, I think) for it to keep the carriage
return intact.

Jim

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