formfeeds

BBEdit by Barebones? Update of TextWrangler...Mac based though, no suggestions for PCs.

John :-#)#

There's an old UNIX program called a2ps - ASCII to PostScript that does a really nice job of converting a bunch of formats to nicely formatted pages. Easily available or part of standard package on Linux, but it can be put on Windows systems as well. I use it a lot. Of course, you need a printer that accepts PostScript.

Jon

or a2pdf

Print from vim with option :set printoptions=formfeed:y

I guess you just want to get rid of the form feed characters. It's a common problem solved with a stream editor:

No, I want my networked printer to feed a fresh page when the text file has a formfeed.

I can paste the text into Word, and it pages when I print, but too much else gets messed up.

I could write a utility that converts ff to some page-feed escape sequence or something, if our Cannon digital copier recognizes such a sequence.

A word processor should be able to search and replace the form feeds with its own page code. Word Perfect for DOS could do that easily. Word might be too bloated to do something so simple. But WP for DOS can read text files and Word can read WP files.

If your printer is set to do PCL, Postscript, or emulate some other printer, it might be ignoring form feed characters. If you're trying to add a FF character after the end of a block of Postscript or PCL commands, it might recognize the FF character, but within the block of formatting text will only result in a cryptic character block or printing ^L.

What maker and model printer are you using? Does the printer have an "ASCII Printer" emulation mode?

Hmmm... maybe a text printer will work. In Windoze, add a printer called: Generic -> Generic/Text Only and see what happens when you print to it. If your printer defaults to a plain old ASCII line printer, it should work. If your printer does not support some kind of line printer mode, it won't work. If you get "staircase" printing, you may need to add a CR (carriage return) with every LF (line feed).

or just pr pr converts all FF to NL(s)

John - Hewlitt Packard's PCL notation uses the following escape sequence for a fresh page: &1OH ie: 0x1b 0x26 0x6c 0x30 0x48 Might work.

Hul

John Lark> > >> >

Turns out that PowerBasic has everything I need. It can discover all the available printers and has all the tools to do formatting and such, like XPRINT FORMFEED. Maybe I'll write a little Windows app that I can drag a text file onto, to print on our networked copier.

A few lines of code does this:

That says "one" followed by "capital letter O"

but the hex says "lower case letter L" followed by "zero."

rename it something.txt and import into libreoffice?