Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nih-csl!helix.nih.gov!donnel From: donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Plain text output from W4W: Problem Solved Message-ID: <1571@nih-csl.nih.gov> Date: 10 Jun 91 16:07:20 GMT References: <1351@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Sender: news@nih-csl.nih.gov Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Lines: 40 In article <1351@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> alan@lancs.ac.uk (Alan Phillips) writes: ->A couple of months ago I posted a note here about problems using the ->generic/textonly print driver in W4W to get formatted text output to a file. ->This hit text that was fully justified, so that if you had -> -> abcd -> ->in a justified paragraph, output to file contained -> -> a -> b -> c -> d -> ->i.e. one file line per character and megabytes of unnecessary spaces. We ->later found it was even worse than that: the crazy output got the driver's line ->count confused, so that you got only about the first dozen lines of every page ->in the file at all. -> ->Several people replied, but all suggested variants of File Save As, using ->different format options to preserve the _text_, but no-one could suggest how ->to preserve the _formatting_ also. -> ->Microsoft have recently admitted there's a bug in the TTY.DRV program as it ->interacts with W4W (Windows Write can produce plain text in a file with no ->problems), and sent us a new version; this fixes the problem, so that the ->output file now contains sensible lines and retains all the formatting. The ->only bug we've seen so far in this new driver is that occasionally it will ->justify to a right margin one character too far to the right if you mix fonts ->on a line. -> ->I can't say how to get hold of the new driver (it's not the one shipped in ->Windows 3.00a) other than to suggest you ask Microsoft. It may be on Microsoft ->Online. -> ->Alan Can you upload the driver to cica.cica.indiana.edu? Don Lehn