steves@mcrware.UUCP (Steve Simpson) (10/19/90)
I am a former WordPerfect user and haven't been around it for a while. An associate is trying to write a document to a PostScript file so they can take the file to a service bureau for output. I have been unable to find any information on writing/printing a doc to a file. Any suggestions (even the proper steps :-)) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ============================================== "Homer" Simpson "Remember...As fas as anyone knows, we're a nice, normal family." Disclaimer: My words, not theirs. ==============================================
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (10/19/90)
gerland@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (James R. Gerland) writes: >In article <3435@mcrware.UUCP>, steves@mcrware.UUCP (Steve Simpson) writes... >>I am a former WordPerfect user and haven't been around it for a while. >>An associate is trying to write a document to a PostScript file so they >>can take the file to a service bureau for output. >>I have been unable to find any information on writing/printing a doc >>to a file. Any suggestions (even the proper steps :-)) would be greatly >>appreciated. >At the PRINT menu (shift-F7) chose SELECT then EDIT (3) the printer and change >the PORT (2) choice to OTHER (8) and give it a file-name. An additional step is that to get a *Postscript* file on the disk you should be editing a printer driver like the Apple LaserWriter that will produce Postscript output. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu
sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) (10/19/90)
In article <3435@mcrware.UUCP> steves@mcrware.UUCP (Steve Simpson) writes: > >I am a former WordPerfect user and haven't been around it for a while. >An associate is trying to write a document to a PostScript file so they >can take the file to a service bureau for output. > >I have been unable to find any information on writing/printing a doc >to a file. Any suggestions (even the proper steps :-)) would be greatly >appreciated. > >Thanks in advance. > >============================================== >"Homer" Simpson >"Remember...As fas as anyone knows, >we're a nice, normal family." >Disclaimer: My words, not theirs. >============================================== Someone asked this before on the net and I replied it through e-mail. I think I will waste a bit of network bandwidth for a change. To print to a file in Word Perfect, you first have to use Shift-F7 to go to the print menu. Then pick select printer and choose the laser printer of your choice. Still under select printer, choose option 3 (edit) to edit the driver. Another menu will show up to allow you to change the port, font, size, etc. Pick the Port option. Instead of choosing LPT1, COM1, etc., chooose OTHER. This will allow you to type in the output filename. After you are done, F7 to exit back to the top level. No whenever you print, the output goes to the designated filename. Unless you go through the above all the time, all output will be redirected to that same file, which mean overwriting the previous ones. If you don't feel like changing the above all the time and you need to keep the outputs, better rename each one after it's being printed. Yeah, so much for user friendliness! Andy _______________________________________________________________________________ Andy Sun | Internet: sun@me.utoronto.ca University of Toronto, Canada | UUCP : ...!utai!me!sun Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | BITNET : sun@me.utoronto.BITNET
jmd@franklin.ee.umr.edu (Jim Dumser) (10/19/90)
In article <90Oct18.222136edt.21887@me.utoronto.ca> sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes: >To print to a file in Word Perfect, you first have to use Shift-F7 to go >to the print menu. Then pick select printer and choose the laser printer of >your choice. Still under select printer, choose option 3 (edit) to edit >the driver. Another menu will show up to allow you to change the port, >font, size, etc. Pick the Port option. Instead of choosing LPT1, COM1, etc., >chooose OTHER. This will allow you to type in the output filename. After >you are done, F7 to exit back to the top level. No whenever you print, the >output goes to the designated filename. There's one more step, depending on how you intend to print the file. Someone here is doing their thesis in WP 5.0, and so I know! There appears to be a bug in the Postscript drivers: _t (one of the procedures defined in the prolog) is always followed by ONLY a carriage return -- no linefeed. The guy here was shipping the file up to a Unix machine to have it spooled there, and he uploaded the file using Kermit. Kermit removes the lone carriage return (other "text" protocols may as well). He had to send it as a binary file (set filetype binary, I think) for it to keep the carriage return intact. Jim +-------------------------------------------------------+ | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, | | but fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 | |-------------------------------------------------------| | Internet: jmd@ee.umr.edu | M S - D O S . . . | | UUCP: ...uunet!umree!jmd | Just say "NO!" | +-------------------------------------------------------+