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Steve Lake

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May 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/19/99
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Is there a way to convert txt file to an image file. I want to print large
acsii pictures out on my printer, but text apps like wordpad, adobe acrobat
and ms word mess up the formatting.

Joe Fischer

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May 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/19/99
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Steve Lake (sl...@up2date.com) wrote:
: Is there a way to convert txt file to an image file. I want to print
: large acsii pictures out on my printer, but text apps like wordpad,
: adobe acrobat and ms word mess up the formatting.

Yes, a conversion utility called NeoGrab comes
with shareware Neopaint that converts ASCII or ANSI
to BMP which can then be converted to any image format.
I will only do 25 lines at a time though.

www.neosoft.com

(I think).

But if you have a plain text file with carriage returns
and linefeeds and the lines aren't too long, you can print an
ASCII file by going to the MSDOS Prompt and

COPY MYIMAGE.ASC LPT1

It works for me.

Joe Fischer

Jussi Jalkanen

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May 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/19/99
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Steve Lake wrote in message ...

>Is there a way to convert txt file to an image file. I want to print large
>acsii pictures out on my printer, but text apps like wordpad, adobe acrobat
>and ms word mess up the formatting.
>
>

Press "Print Scrn"-button, then go photo editor and paste. This works for
small pictures... (unless you have a very big monitor)

- Jussi -

Veronica Karlsson

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May 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/19/99
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Steve Lake wrote:
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> Is there a way to convert txt file to an image file. I want to print large
> acsii pictures out on my printer, but text apps like wordpad, adobe acrobat
> and ms word mess up the formatting.

Have you tried printing from Netscape?


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Jon Eva

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May 19, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/19/99
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Hi Steve,

If you use a fixed width font (e.g. courier) then you should
be able to print your files ok.

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"Steve Lake" <sl...@up2date.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to convert txt file to an image file. I want to print
large
> acsii pictures out on my printer, but text apps like wordpad, adobe
acrobat
> and ms word mess up the formatting.


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