Printing to a file

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of William
> James McEachran
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:36 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Printing to a file
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:57:21PM -0700, Jim Fry wrote:
> >
> > When I did the print to file idea, I was able to find my output
> on my C drive under Hardcopy.txt just fine but there are columns
> of numbers involved... when I copy & pasted, the columns were all
> out of alignment & it was more work than it should have been to
> do what I was trying to accomplish.
> >
> > I was told that there was something called 'enriched text
> format' that would make my tast much easier...
>
> Your Word document uses proportional fonts and the filePro output uses
> fixed fonts. In a fixed font an "i" character takes up as much horizontal
> space as a "w" character.
>
> Pasting your filePro data into Word with proportial fonts set
> isn't going to
> work unless you first specify a change in font to a fixed font
> (fixed or Courier).
>
> On Windows, there is a technique for generating filePro output in
> RTF format
> which also may help ... haven't done it myself. You might also
> paste the data
> into tables.
> --
> Bill McEachran

If using the rtf print code table is what you mean here, it is also
available on *nix systems. I do it all the time to generate files which can
be immediately read as word files. Currently, though, I choose to generate
courier (non-proportional) font since this looks best for reports... i.e.,
numbers line up, columns, etc.

John