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

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Jeff Blakeney (CUTjefbla@bconnex.net) wrote:
: 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.

Right.  That's what I found out.  And apparently it is Teach that is doing
it, since it doesn't matter whether I use the Imagewriter or the Perfect
Image driver.

: 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.

Interesting you should mention that problem...I have had trouble with
getting about halfway through a page (in Teach, portrait mode, generally
something simple like Shaston-8) and suddenly getting the top of the page
again shifted halfway over on the right-hand side of the page...overlaid
on top of the text I am supposed to be getting.  I finally traced that
problem to the Perfect Image driver; when I switched back to the Apple
driver, it worked fine.

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

That was my problem.

Ultimately, I just ran the file through Sideways and that worked pretty
well.  What I really need to do is to get a parallel card for my //e so
that I can just print the report from there instead of having to use the
IIgs...  8-)

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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