Re: HELP: W-I-D-E text file

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 22 Nov 1998 22:20:21 -0500, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave
Althoff) wrote:

>I have this text file of a database which is preformatted 175 characters
>wide by 45 lines per page.

Now that's a wide file.  :-)

I spent a while trying to get this to work with several programs and
it gets close but doesn't quite work.

Teach doesn't let you set the margins so it will always do the word
wrap around 8 inches even when printing in landscape mode.

Hermes lets you set the margin but it ignores it when printing and
still does word wrap around 8 inches.

The AppleWorksGS word processing module won't let you set the margin
off the screen so that is out too.

Both GraphicWriter III and AppleWorksGS' page layout modules let me
set everything up but when I print it only prints about half the page
then it starts screwing up and printing garbage.  I tried it with both
the ImageWriter driver from System 6.0.1 and the Vitesse Perfect Image
driver and neither worked.

It SHOULD work but I just couldn't get it to work correctly.

If you want to give it a try anyways, in the ImageWriter drivers Page
Setup dialog, set the Reduction to 50% Life Size, Height to have
Vertical Condense checked and Orientation to Landscape.  I was using
Geneva and Helvetica at 12 point (ends up being 6 point when printed)
and still had room to spare after 175 columns and 45 rows.

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