Oy, OT again, but very smart people here

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Jeff Needle

I need to print a report from a word processor called Yeah Write to a
disk file. No way to do it within the program itself. In a burst of
brilliance <grin> I set up a new printer in WinXP that's called "Print
to file" with "File:" preset as the destination.

I tried printing the file to File: using that driver, no errors, but now
I can't find where it saved it to disk! It never asked me for a file name.

Any idea what this generated file is called, and how I can get to it?

Thanks.
 
Jeff Needle said:
I need to print a report from a word processor called Yeah Write to a disk
file. No way to do it within the program itself. In a burst of brilliance
<grin> I set up a new printer in WinXP that's called "Print to file" with
"File:" preset as the destination.

I tried printing the file to File: using that driver, no errors, but now I
can't find where it saved it to disk! It never asked me for a file name.

Any idea what this generated file is called, and how I can get to it?

Thanks.
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Have you done a Search for "File:" ?.
Altho` Yeah Write should Save the file to a folder.
Or you might be able to Select All, and copy it to where
you want.
Any way to skin a cat.
 
Jeff Needle said:
I need to print a report from a word processor called Yeah Write to a
disk file. No way to do it within the program itself. In a burst of
brilliance <grin> I set up a new printer in WinXP that's called "Print
to file" with "File:" preset as the destination.

I tried printing the file to File: using that driver, no errors, but now
I can't find where it saved it to disk! It never asked me for a file name.

Any idea what this generated file is called, and how I can get to it?

Thanks.
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I believe it should have a .PRN extension. Search for it.
 
beenthere said:
Have you done a Search for "File:" ?.
Altho` Yeah Write should Save the file to a folder.
Or you might be able to Select All, and copy it to where
you want.
Any way to skin a cat.
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Yeah, the search showed nothing. Yeah Write doesn't have a way to save
a report to a folder, only printing to printers. I wish it did have
this. I'll try your other suggestion. Thanks.
 
Fuzzy said:
I believe it should have a .PRN extension. Search for it.
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Okay, friends, I figured it out. It has to do with the stuff you have
to do in Windows to set up the printer driver. I fiddled with it and
finally got it to kinda work. Lots of ANSI characters I had to remove,
but it only took a few minutes.

I wish this were easier...<grin>

Thanks to all.
 
Okay, friends, I figured it out. It has to do with the stuff you have
to do in Windows to set up the printer driver. I fiddled with it and
finally got it to kinda work. Lots of ANSI characters I had to remove,
but it only took a few minutes.

I wish this were easier...<grin>
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Screen shot, perhaps?
A two colour ( i.e. black and white ) bitmap should be good enough.

Regards,
 
Steve said:
Screen shot, perhaps?
A two colour ( i.e. black and white ) bitmap should be good enough.

Regards,
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Well, I think I've got it covered. Thanks for the hints. It's
something I'll only do once (I hope), and it's done. I'll actually
sleep tonight.

Thanks again.
 
I need to print a report from a word processor called Yeah Write to a
disk file. No way to do it within the program itself.
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I would install CutePDF which acts as a printer driver. This way you can
print to a PDF file.
 
Jeff said:
I need to print a report from a word processor called Yeah Write to a
disk file. No way to do it within the program itself. In a burst of
brilliance <grin> I set up a new printer in WinXP that's called "Print
to file" with "File:" preset as the destination.

I tried printing the file to File: using that driver, no errors, but now
I can't find where it saved it to disk! It never asked me for a file name.

Any idea what this generated file is called, and how I can get to it?

Thanks.
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have you got a version of yeah write with save disabled? If so, get an
earlier one that works.

NT
 
have you got a version of yeah write with save disabled? If so, get an
earlier one that works.

NT
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I tried contacting them today, but their number has been disconnected.
And I have a registered, full copy, and I don't know that any other
versions had this feature.

I sent an email, and it hasn't bounced. I'm hoping to hear from them.
 
Jeff..... do a file search for a file '*.prn' and you will find it.

For future, install a new printer and use 'Generic' from the list.
use that printer to print with and in the printer driver options, use
print to file.
Regards
Lee

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I tried contacting them today, but their number has been disconnected.
And I have a registered, full copy, and I don't know that any other
versions had this feature.
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I sent an email, and it hasn't bounced. I'm hoping to hear from them.
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Jeff, if you named the file "File:" (with the colon) there won't be
any file on your computer - names ending in colons are devices, not
files. (I probably misunderstood your post, though.)
 
Lee said:
Jeff..... do a file search for a file '*.prn' and you will find it.
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Did it, no file found. In fact, I wasn't asked for a file name at all.
I figured out how to tweak it and get it to work, and used "Generic"
as you suggest below, and it almost worked perfectly -- it still threw a
lot of stuff into the file.

Thanks for the help.
 
Al said:
Jeff, if you named the file "File:" (with the colon) there won't be
any file on your computer - names ending in colons are devices, not
files. (I probably misunderstood your post, though.)
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It didn't ask for any file name at all: that's the curious part. I did
tweak it and get it to ask for a file name.
 
Jeff said:
Yeah, the search showed nothing. Yeah Write doesn't have a way to save
a report to a folder, only printing to printers. I wish it did have
this. I'll try your other suggestion. Thanks.
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That's exactly why I decided not to use it. Otherwise, the concept is
really great.
 
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