> Rich Pasco wrote:
>> I have some old DOS text files with box graphic characters in them.
>> Any suggestions how to get them to print correctly on my PostScript
>> printer under Windows 2000?
>>
>> Windows 2000 comes with a font called Terminal with which I can
> display
>> the files correctly (e.g. in Notepad) but when I print them, the
> system
>> seems to substitute Courier, with weird national-language characterws
>> where the box graphics should be.
>>
>>      - Rich
>
> Try Wordpad. I think.

> Rats. I Was hoping that wordpad has graphical capabilities, that it
> would print what was on the screen accurately. I'd just assumed that
> Terminal would show up on your font menu.
>
> Darnit.
>
> Have you tried opening them with a real word processor?
>

> Bob I wrote:
>
>>I don't see original posting but,
>>
>>Try Notepad, Terminal font
>>
>
>
> Alas, he did. Seems to be a proplem with the printer not printing what
> the screen displays.
>
> Printer is printing the ANSI international characters instead af the
> ASCII box draw. Notepad with the terminal font displays the box draw.
>
> David thinks the problem may be in the printer drivers. I'm taking a
> different tack based on the fact that notepad is VERY limited. I don't
> know who's right. Got a third theory?
>

> pau***@efn.org wrote:
>
>
>>IBM/Lexmark 4029
>
>
> The IBM/Lexmark 4029 can be configured as a vanilla ASCII printer,
> in which case it prints box characters sent to it.  But I want to
> be able to print these files files (under Windows) with the printer
> in PostScript mode.  Apparently the box characters don't exist in
> the PostScript Courier font at all (even as unencoded characters),
> and Terminal is a screen-only font.
>
>      - Rich

> From: "Rich Pasco" <richp1***@hotmail.com>
>
> | I have some old DOS text files with box graphic characters in them.
> | Any suggestions how to get them to print correctly on my PostScript
> | printer under Windows 2000?
> |
> | Windows 2000 comes with a font called Terminal with which I can display
> | the files correctly (e.g. in Notepad) but when I print them, the system
> | seems to substitute Courier, with weird national-language characterws
> | where the box graphics should be.
> |
> |      - Rich
> |
>
> Are you using an Adobe's PostScript Print Driver or Microsoft's ?

From: "Rich Pasco" <richp1***@hotmail.com>


|
| I think Microsoft's.  When I installed it a couple years ago. I just
| told Windows the model of printer I had (IBM/Lexmark 4029) and it did
| the rest.
|
| By the way, if I invoke Properties on the printer, choose Device
| Settings and open Font Substitution Table, it doesn't show Terminal
| (which is a bitmap font, neither TrueType nor PostScript).
|
|      - Rich