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From: monett_s@cho006.cho.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Formatted DOS Text from WP5.1
Message-ID: <1991May28.132336.2323@cho006.cho.ge.com>
Date: 28 May 91 17:23:36 GMT
References: <1520@rust.zso.dec.com>
Organization: GE Fanuc Automation, North America
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In article <1520@rust.zso.dec.com>, mtp@mold.zso.dec.com (Mike Peterson)
> 
>     
>     I have a 70 page document to be printed.  
>
>           . . .
>
>     Other users, however, have a variety of dot-matrix printers.  To provide
>     the document in a form that ALL of them can use, I need to print a file to
>     disk that is plain, vanilla DOS text.  Moreover, it is important to
>     preserve the basic format of the document (e.g., page numbering, table of
>     contents, index, and glossary).  The different fonts and bolded/italicized
>     words are not vital.

If you go into the WordPerfect printer selection screen and select
"other printers", one of the ones you will find listed is "Standard".
This is the name that WP chose for the most basic text device. It
assumes that the printer is capable of printing upper and lower case at
10 cpi and that the print head can be moved to the left margin without
causing a line feed. Given those parameters **every** dot matrix printer
will work. It will not give you a plain text document though. There will
be characters repeated several times for bold and other stuff thrown in
for underline.
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Steve Monett                        monett_s@cho006.cho.ge.com
GE-Fanuc; Charlottesville, VA