Docuemting database program

[danjacoby]

Don't think it' possible to print a script unless there's a plug-in available.

Can't say as I'd want to try editing a script in MS Word -- or any other program for that matter. Either the script is simple enough that you don't need to mess around with programming "on paper", or it's complex enough that you need to be able to test what you've done.

[The Bridge]

If you are using Mac, look for Print2Pict at www.versiontracker.com. It is a Chooser extension that lets you print to a text file.

[Fitch]

I have also heard that in Windows there is a printer under the Generic Section called Generic/txt...

Personally I find Acrobat handy for this. I print my field definitions and scripts to a Postscript file, run it through Distiller, then I can search for things pretty quickly.

[JAG]

Is it possible to print a script to file so it can be imported into a Word processing program? Being able to do this, and to edit the script would greatly assist the documentation process.

[JAG]

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Originally posted by danjacoby:

Don't think it' possible to print a script unless there's a plug-in available.

Can't say as I'd want to try editing a script in MS Word -- or any other program for that matter. Either the script is simple enough that you don't need to mess around with programming "on paper", or it's complex enough that you need to be able to test what you've done.

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[JAG]

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Originally posted by JAG:

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Originally posted by danjacoby:

Don't think it' possible to print a script unless there's a plug-in available.

Can't say as I'd want to try editing a script in MS Word -- or any other program for that matter. Either the script is simple enough that you don't need to mess around with programming "on paper", or it's complex enough that you need to be able to test what you've done.

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Thanks for the input. I was hoping there would be some way to export the script to a text file. I want to do this because sometimes I wish to take part of a complex script (or all of it)to put in a document I am writing to document a program. If I could do this, I could insert the script and add a lengthy discussion of how the script works. I do this manually now and find it invaluable for some time in the future when I need to trouble shoot the program.

I obviously don't do this for simple, direct scripts, only complex, invloved ones where the logic is not clear.

[signal]

There is a plugin that does that. Supposed to be pretty cool. I'll think of the name right after I post this but it IS available. It had the word "script" in it.

[bobsmith]

Not the best solution, but I sometimes print the script to a pdf file and the copy and past from there to Word to do documentation.