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- PrintFile README
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- Overview
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- PrintFile is a freeware utility program that will enable you to print
- files fast and easily. The program recognizes plain text, PostScript,
- Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and binary formats.
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- Selection of which files to print can be made by the normal Windows file
- selection dialog, or by Drag and Drop operations with one or several
- files. The latter facilitates batch printing of files.
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- PrintFile can also act as a print spooler, watching a specified
- directory for files. Whenever a file appears in that directory it will
- automatically be printed.
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- When printing text files PrintFile makes a configurable page layout of
- the text contents. Several logical pages can be placed on one page of
- physical paper (referred to as n-up printing). There are also several
- other configurable options controlling the layout. Text files can be
- printed on any printer that has a Windows printer driver. Text copied
- to the clipboard can also be printed in the same manner as text files.
- PrintFile can also do user configurable Pretty Printing of text files.
- Keywords and comments can be highlighted using different font styles and
- colors. This function is primarily intended for source code files.
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- Non-text files are sent files directly to a Windows printer. In this
- case the program can be seen as a Windows replacement for the DOS
- command "copy/b filename LPTx" . As opposed to this DOS command,
- PrintFile works well with network printers that have no connection to
- any LPTx. This function is mainly intended for printing PostScript files
- but may just as well be used for any file created by the "Print to
- File" option available for most Windows printer drivers. Such a print
- file can for instance be created on a PC without a printer and then be
- moved to another PC that has a printer, and here be sent to the printer
- using PrintFile.
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- PostScript files can normally only be printed on PostScript printers. If
- a conversion program like Ghostscript is available however, PrintFile
- can automatically do a conversion before sending the file to the
- printer. The program can also print Encapsulated PostScript Files (EPS).
- These files can normally only be inserted into documents and not be
- printed directly. It is also possible to control the positioning and
- layout of the EPS picture on the printer page. Both EPS files with and
- without preview can be handled. Other PostScript features is the
- possibility to select an arbitrary range of pages for the printout when
- printing multiple page PostScript files and to do n-up printing.
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- PrintFile also works well with command line (DOS) programs. It has
- several command line options and can read data from command line
- standard input, e.g. a command line pipe. A command like "dir | prfile"
- can for instance be used to get a n-up printout of a directory listing.
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- Both 16-bit (Windows 3.1x) and 32-bit (Windows 9x, NT and 2000) versions
- are available in the distribution.
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- Documentation is included in a Windows Help file.
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- Requirements
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- PrintFile requires a PC running one of the following versions of
- Microsoft Windows:
- * Windows 3.1
- * Windows 3.11
- * Windows 95 or later
- * Windows NT 3.51 or later
- * Windows 2000
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- No version of PrintFile can be used on OS/2.
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- PrintFile is delivered as a zip file archive. Two different archives are
- available, one with both a 16 bit and a 32 bit version of PrintFile, and
- another that only contains the 32 bit version.
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- Installation
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- In order to install PrintFile you first have to unzip the contents of
- the PrintFile zip archive file into a temporary directory. Then run the
- setup program. When the installation has finished you can remove the
- temporary directory. If you are using WinZip you can do all this just by
- pressing the install button in that program. If you are using the
- combined 16 and 32 bit archive the installation program will choose the
- correct executable for the operating system that you are installing on.
- The installation will prompt you for a directory to install PrintFile
- into and if a Program Manager group should be created. In Windows 9x,
- NT 4 and 2000 a startup menu item will be created instead. In those Windows
- versions you also have the option to create a desktop shortcut for
- PrintFile.
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