Print to file - scripts

[Kent Searight]

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum, so if not, feel free to move it to where it should be.

With FM8 (or 7 for that matter) running on Windows XP, when you select a script from the "Define Scripts ..." dialog, you can print it to hard copy or to a file. My question is...when you "print to file", how can you get anything meaningful out of the file? Which program can it be viewed in, so that it doesn't appear as a bunch of gibberish?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[LaRetta]

Hi Kent,

Print to a generic / text only printer. You should have one installed but if not, you can find it quickly here . There are also other generic text printers you can download. I just use the default XP one currently.

L

[Kent Searight]

Hi LaRetta!

I tried it out but I must have something configured incorrectly because the letters have huge spaces between them.

On the bright side, I'm getting decent results printing to a PDF file on Windows, which I didn't think was possible.

Thanks once again for helping me out! :thanks:

-Kent

[LaRetta]

Hi Kent,

Thanks for the heads up - I haven't tried printing vs. 8 yet; in fact, I don't think I've printed scripts in 7. I used it all the time in vs. 6 to print scripts because I'd copy/paste the printed file for responding to posts. Now I just type scripts manually.

Good to know PDF is better!

LaRetta

[Kent Searight]

I just tried printing to a PDF file in FM 7 Dev on Win XP and it works, also. The printer name is "QQPDF" (Amyuni PDF Converter 1.59) and apparently comes w/XP.

Note: I have to manually add the file name extension to it in order for Acrobat Reader to recognize it as a PDF.