Printing DOS text files with box graphics

[Rich Pasco]

I have some old DOS text files with box graphic characters in them.
Any suggestions how to get them to print correctly on my PostScript
printer under Windows 2000?

Windows 2000 comes with a font called Terminal with which I can display
the files correctly (e.g. in Notepad) but when I print them, the system
seems to substitute Courier, with weird national-language characterws
where the box graphics should be.

- Rich

 

[paulmd]

I have some old DOS text files with box graphic characters in them.
Any suggestions how to get them to print correctly on my PostScript
printer under Windows 2000?

Windows 2000 comes with a font called Terminal with which I can display
the files correctly (e.g. in Notepad) but when I print them, the system
seems to substitute Courier, with weird national-language characterws
where the box graphics should be.

- Rich

Try Wordpad. I think.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Rich Pasco" <[email protected]>

| I have some old DOS text files with box graphic characters in them.
| Any suggestions how to get them to print correctly on my PostScript
| printer under Windows 2000?
|
| Windows 2000 comes with a font called Terminal with which I can display
| the files correctly (e.g. in Notepad) but when I print them, the system
| seems to substitute Courier, with weird national-language characterws
| where the box graphics should be.
|
| - Rich
|

Are you using an Adobe's PostScript Print Driver or Microsoft's ?

 

[Rich Pasco]

From: "Rich Pasco" <[email protected]>

| I have some old DOS text files with box graphic characters in them.
| Any suggestions how to get them to print correctly on my PostScript
| printer under Windows 2000?
|
| Windows 2000 comes with a font called Terminal with which I can display
| the files correctly (e.g. in Notepad) but when I print them, the system
| seems to substitute Courier, with weird national-language characterws
| where the box graphics should be.
|
| - Rich
|

Are you using an Adobe's PostScript Print Driver or Microsoft's ?

I think Microsoft's. When I installed it a couple years ago. I just
told Windows the model of printer I had (IBM/Lexmark 4029) and it did
the rest.

By the way, if I invoke Properties on the printer, choose Device
Settings and open Font Substitution Table, it doesn't show Terminal
(which is a bitmap font, neither TrueType nor PostScript).

- Rich

 

[Rich Pasco]

Try Wordpad. I think.

Not sure exactly what you think I should do with Wordpad. Can you
be more specific? I opened my document in Wordpad but the box chars
were illegible. I couldn't find font Terminal on the menu of fonts.

- Rich

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Rich Pasco" <[email protected]>


|
| I think Microsoft's. When I installed it a couple years ago. I just
| told Windows the model of printer I had (IBM/Lexmark 4029) and it did
| the rest.
|
| By the way, if I invoke Properties on the printer, choose Device
| Settings and open Font Substitution Table, it doesn't show Terminal
| (which is a bitmap font, neither TrueType nor PostScript).
|
| - Rich


Then I would suggest downloading and using the Adobe PostScript Print Driver since Adobe is
the "expert" at PostScript.

 

[paulmd]

Rats. I Was hoping that wordpad has graphical capabilities, that it
would print what was on the screen accurately. I'd just assumed that
Terminal would show up on your font menu.

Darnit.

Have you tried opening them with a real word processor?

 

[Bob I]

I don't see original posting but,

Try Notepad, Terminal font

 

[paulmd]

I don't see original posting but,

Try Notepad, Terminal font

Alas, he did. Seems to be a proplem with the printer not printing what
the screen displays.

Printer is printing the ANSI international characters instead af the
ASCII box draw. Notepad with the terminal font displays the box draw.

David thinks the problem may be in the printer drivers. I'm taking a
different tack based on the fact that notepad is VERY limited. I don't
know who's right. Got a third theory?

 

[Bob I]

Is the printer capable of configuration? What printer is it?

 

[paulmd]

Is the printer capable of configuration? What printer is it?

IBM/Lexmark 4029

 

[Rich Pasco]

IBM/Lexmark 4029

The IBM/Lexmark 4029 can be configured as a vanilla ASCII printer,
in which case it prints box characters sent to it. But I want to
be able to print these files files (under Windows) with the printer
in PostScript mode. Apparently the box characters don't exist in
the PostScript Courier font at all (even as unencoded characters),
and Terminal is a screen-only font.

- Rich

 

[Bob I]

Oh sorry, I didn't realize you didn't want to use the available method.
All I can suggest would be to switch modes on a job basis, if the
printer needs to remain primarily in the "PS" mode.