<div>Glenn,</div> <div> </div> <div>As a super quick-and-dirty, you can use awk a/o sed to massage the file before you print it. Specifically you can add control strings to set the font at the top of the file, convert record terminators, etc. If you need the control string values for the printer that you're talking to, printing to a file from Word can help you capture these values easily.</div> <div> </div> <div>Is this approach...</div> <div>Elegant? No. </div> <div>Flexible between printers from various manufacturers? No. </div> <div>Obscure and potentially tedious to maintain? Yes.</div> <div>Easy to get up and running without extensive research? Yes.</div> <div> </div> <div>jb</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Ken Langendock <Ken@Langendock.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><SPAN class=574082018-29082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Glenn, Are you ftp'ing them in Binary mode?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=574082018-29082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=574082018-29082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>As for the Font size, you may have to add an INITIAL HEADING to set the font to the correct size for the printer you are trying to print on. Vax's have defaults that work well with printers...UNIX machines don't seem to care about anything.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=574082018-29082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=574082018-29082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ken</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=574082018-29082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com@lists.sowder.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Glenn Gipman<BR><B>Sent:</B> August 29, 2006 2:13 PM<BR><B>To:</B> powerh-l@lists.sowder.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Printing problems Vax to Unix<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's the situation:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The client has just moved into a new office and (because of politics) the vax print queues no longer exist. So Quiz reports are being written to disc, transferred to a Unix box using SFTP, then printed from there. It seems that this should work OK but the reports are not printing properly. <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>One problem is the font size. The 2nd
problem is the control characters are being interpreted as garbage. </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help! I need a quick fix.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help will be much appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Glenn Gipman - Vancouver, B.C.</FONT></DIV>-- <BR>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =<BR>Mailing list: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com<BR>Subscribe: "subscribe" in message body to powerh-l-request@lists.sowder.com<BR>Unsubscribe: "unsubscribe <password>" in message body to powerh-l-request@lists.sowder.com<BR>http://lists.sowder.com/mailman/listinfo/powerh-l<BR>This list is closed, thus to post to the list you must be a subscriber.<BR>Add 'site:lists.sowder.com powerh-l' to
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