Text only printing with Windows XP

[jmclopes]

Maybe someone has a tip on the following.

I'm trying the "print to file" feature with a Generic/Text Only driver
to produce a text only version of some document. The annoying part is
that the output it isn't text only!!! It contain control codes.

Any suggestion on how to get a really text only output? Let clear that
copy / paste to a new document won't work. What I need is a printer
driver that really produces text only output, like the "Generic/Text
Only" driver from MS suggests but doesn't do it.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Earl F. Parrish]

Maybe someone has a tip on the following.

I'm trying the "print to file" feature with a Generic/Text Only driver
to produce a text only version of some document. The annoying part is
that the output it isn't text only!!! It contain control codes.

Any suggestion on how to get a really text only output? Let clear that
copy / paste to a new document won't work. What I need is a printer
driver that really produces text only output, like the "Generic/Text
Only" driver from MS suggests but doesn't do it.

Thanks in advance.

Can you save the document as text using the application which created it?

 

[Guest]

I am having basically the same problem - see Generic Printer Driver 8/2/06. I
have since printed to a file and then inspected the file with a Hex Editor.
This test file had ten lines. The driver apparently adds spaces to each line
for margins and adds line feeds to obtain the page length. For my situation,
I need only the text output without the driver adding carriage renturns, line
feeds, etc. Does Microsoft have a position on this driver - support -
documentation. The Windows 98 generic driver had a means of outputing only
the text without other Is it possible to modify the generic driver?