RE: Text document TOF controls

["John King" <jking@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

        I hate it when people won't answer my questions and instead tell me I
should be doing something a different way, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

        We fought that one for years. Although your situation might be 
different,
the problem we encountered was that when we converted *SCS printer files to
ASCII text and emailed them as MIME .txt attachments, we were left at the
mercy of the recipient's email client. One person wanted to print straight
from Outlook, the next person would use notepad.exe and someone else would
'save as' a .doc file and use MSWord. And everyone had different defaults on
their word processor. Trying to sneak ASCII control characters into the file
didn't work for me, either. There was no solution using .txt files.

        I was about to write a pre-processing routine to embed Rich Text codes 
and
send the files as .rtf when I discovered a piece of freeware called
SpoolFactory http://www.spoolfactory.com. Now we just convert the spool
files to .pdf before emailing.

JK


>
> Hello oh wise group!!! (Yeah it's Thursday - need I say more?)
>
> Can anyone point me towards manuals that explain how to put page controls
> for text documents into a document that is also going to be printed by a
> dot-matrix / line printer?
>
> Our Purchasing Department prints PO's and then mails (via USPS) to the
> vendor - and then wants to email the document (after it has been converted
> into a text document) to the relevant purchase manager - and have the text
> document page break on the same line as the impact document.
>
> Any hope????
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Rob Joubert
> Authentic Fitness Corporation
> (323) 837-6486
> rjoubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>