Fixed-pitch printing of ASCII text files. 1

[mur87110]

I do number crunching on my PC running MSDOS. Most of my programming is in Turbo Pascal V7.0 and Lahey LP77 FORTRAN.

The routines often generate ASCII text files consisting of tables with one or more blanks between columns and line-feeds between pages.

However, when I attempt to print these files on my Windows XP computer, Windows uses variable pitch fonts, where "W" gets more space than "i". This ruins the appearance of my text.

How can I print such files under Windows XP? Is there a simple "typewriter mode" where the characters are printed at 10 CPI or 12 CPI, and line feeds honored? My printer is an hp psc 1210v ink jet printer.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[edfair]

You may need to go to another printer emulation. You might want to see if the printer drivers will honor a HPII or HPIII fixed font.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[kiddpete]

Use Courier.