chr(12) Form Feed in Notepad (Windows)
W. eWatson
wolftracks at invalid.com
Fri Jan 15 23:26:09 EST 2010
Neil Hodgson wrote:
> W. eWatson wrote:
>
>> I am writing a txt file. It's up to the user to print it using Notepad
>> or some other tool.
>
> WordPad will interpret chr(12) as you want.
>
> Neil
That may be the solution. Just tell the end user to copy the file into
it, and print it there.
I just tried it in Wordpad, and it works, but my --- underlines are
pushed together. Maybe tabs instead of spaces. The columns past Seq # in
WordPad may suffer from the characters not being fixed width. Well, a
little work with WordPad might be enough for users to get it right.
"Copy txt file into wordpad. Select all the text, and set format to
fixed (if that's possible.).
Here's what a txt sample looks like. It has line wrap here, and the page
feed
Date/Time & Station UTC Seq # Frames Time Span Pix
Dst Pix/Sec
------------------- -- ------------------- ----- ------ ---------
------- -------
2008/11/12 17:38:58 WW 2008/11/13 01:38:58 1 Noise data. Short
track.
2008/11/12 17:39:24 WW 2008/11/13 01:39:24 2 Noise data. Short
track.
<-------------PAGE FEED
Date/Time & Station UTC Seq # Frames Time Span Pix
Dst Pix/Sec
------------------- -- ------------------- ----- ------ ---------
------- -------
2008/11/17 22:29:54 WW 2008/11/18 06:29:54 21 Noise data. Short
track.
2008/11/18 01:51:36 WW 2008/11/18 09:51:36 22 Noise data. Short
track.
2008/11/18 04:05:03 WW 2008/11/18 12:05:03 23 Noise data. Short
track.
2008/11/18 17:40:42 WW 2008/11/19 01:40:42 24 95 3.17
48.17 15.21
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