Printing notepad files

I need it to be on the fly as needed basis. Those were some great ideas though. Just not what I'm looking for. Is there a way to accomplish this thru windows?? The file does not actually exist until you select print and it goes to the printer. That is why I must beable to print within the application. JohnWill Retired Moderator.

Joined Oct 19, Messages , Gee, why not just install the Text to File print driver and just select it to print plain text to a file? It all comes with Windows, just start the new printer wizard and follow your nose!

Select Generic for the brand, and Text Only as the printer. When you print, it'll ask you where you want your plain text output. Joined Oct 27, Messages 2, Hello JohnJ, Don't know if this will do it, but it's worth a look. Right clcik on the default printer. Under "Print to following port", click on the down arrow to expand the options.

Select "print to file". See if you see an options box for "print to file" there. Good luck. Both those worked except for one problem It worked for windows files but when I tried to use my dos based program it acted as if nothing happen.

Back to the drawing board. Currently I have to minimize the application, capture a printer port that supports DOS to LPT1, return to the application, print, end capture. I think the problem is that each time you print you have to give windows a file name. Is there a way to create a default file so that it does not ask you each time?? Well, I tried it again You just have to use it a little differently than I expected. I'm not running DOS, just emulations of it. I was trying to open my dos prompt to enter the commands, then minimize that and open my DOS based program in a seperate "window".

The program prn2file did not see it over there. It only recognizes what is being printed within that one DOS shell emulation. Now I can print my DOS based program by opening it within that DOS shell, minimize that and still print to my printer in Windows, and since my printer is shared on a network other people can still print to the printer as well. It works like a charm!! Even better than I thought it would.

This will save me a lot a trouble!! Step 2. Step 3. Under the Microsoft branch, select the Notepad folder. In the right pane, double-click the word fSavePageSettings. In the DWord edit box that appears, change the value 0 zero to 1 one. Click OK to save this value as either a decimal or a hex value; it doesn't matter. Step 5. Open Notepad. Click File, Page Setup. Write down the margin, header, and footer values, then change them.

Click OK, and then close Notepad. Now restart Notepad and click File, Page Setup again. In Windows 98 and , your header and footer values will still be the ones you set. In Windows , any new margin settings you defined will also be saved. Windows 's version of Notepad has another nice feature: You can set the default font from its Format menu, rather than hacking the Registry. Now that your preferences will stay put, you can put a lot of handy things in your headers and footers.

You can have Notepad automatically insert the date or time, for example. Header information can be aligned left, aligned right, or centered, and so on. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How do I print the content of a. Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 5 months ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed k times. Yes or No?

Courtney Courtney 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Kara 5, 15 15 gold badges 49 49 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. Greg Greg 5 5 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. You should use the with clause, as others have mentioned in solutions below, as the context manager will take care of closing the file. Because it is more Pythonic ;- — Mawg says reinstate Monica. It seems in newer versions of Python it should be print f.

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