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Generic / Text Only Printer output has extra CR/LF characters

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eljainc

Junior Member
Hello,

We have a report that was generated from a WinXP machine, using the Generic / Text Only printer driver. It is sent to a file by using FILE: as the port. When examining the contents of the report, it is noticed that some graphics characters are embedded in different places throughout the document. On closer examination they are Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF) followed by spaces. We have tried to examine this file for
a pattern of these characters.

What might be causing this behavior? How can it be made so that these characters do not appear in the file?

Is there another similar printer driver in WinXP that has just generic ASCII text output?


Thanks
Mike
 
I would be looking more towards the application that generated the report file, not the printer driver. I'm pretty sure it just passes through the characters that are sent to it.

If it's an old DOS program, it might be inserting, for example, Epson printer escape codes or something.
 
xvi32 -> open the file and locate the unicode or escape codes. not really hard to strip out using a plethora of tools?
 
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