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RTF Printer Driver

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by jmeske

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Hallo,

I am looking for a generetic Printer Driver for Windows 95 and newer. The output should be a file in RTF Format. It has to work from any application as a real printer.

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by chuckab

This isn't Rich Text (.RTF) but this will create a Text file (.TXT):
Start | Settings | Printers
Double-click "Add Printer"
Choose "Local Printer"
On the 'Manufacturers' side choose "Generic"
On the 'Printers' side choose "Generic/Text Only".
Click "Next"
Choose "File:" for your port.
Click "Next"
Give it a name and decide if you want it for your 'Default' printer (probably not).
Click "Next"
If you decide to print a test page, you should be given a dialog for what filename to createand where to create it.
Congratulations! You've just created a printer that creates text files from any program that can print to a Windows printer.

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by jmeske

Hallo,

Thank you for your full answer, but I need the RTF - Format. TXT is not enough.
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany

by estebandelatorre

The generic driver that comes with windows 9X is RTF, again, it contains basic format chareater controls and font types.
You can redirect it to file, and if you print from wordpad (which creates an RTF doc)
the result will be a rtf file, which youcan send to almost any PCL laser printer.
Notepad, as an example, will produce a .txt file, a flat one, no font definitions.
You application may or may not create an rft output. More than this, applications (like word 4.0) changed the available fonts list depending on the printer installed. Newer versions of Word 6.0 and so on, present a full on screen document, but it convert (reduce quality) the output to the printer graphics capacity.

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