File Printing


This is a collection of utilities for printing files. These utilities should
work with printers of any type. For specialized file-printing utilities for
Epson compatible printers, see PRNT_EPS; for LaserJet-compatibles, see
PRNT_LAS.

Contents:

-----Booklets
-----File Printing Programs
-----File Printing with Embedded Controls

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-----Booklets

Some utilities under File Printing can be used to print booklets because
they have the option to print every other page, allowing you to print on both
sides of the page. The programs in this section, however, were written
specifically for making booklets.

[BLAKBOOK]
BlakBook (Tomback, Stephen; $15) lets you maintain and print multiple
8.5"x5.5" address books of up to 528 entries each. Each entry contains a name
and description field and six other fields of up to 66 characters each, with
continuation fields available if needed. Other fields are for the date the
entry was created, date changed and a status field. Pages may be printed by
any combination of Name, Description and Status.

[DATAPUB]
Database Publisher (Albala, Neil; $0) lets you store up to 1,000 records per
diskette and then, using any dot matrix printer set to 136 characters per
line, it will print on both sides of 8.5 x 11 paper which you can then fold
lengthwise and staple to produce an attractive booklet or brochure. The
program is pretty flexible. For example, you could store short articles as
records and your booklet becomes a magazine. But the most common usage would
probably be as a brochure describing products or services. If you put names
and addresses in the database, the program will also print mailing labels.
(The author is no longer at the address listed in the documentation.) This is
very easy to operate, using function keys for most commands. EGA/VGA and a dot
matrix printer are required.

[FONEBOOK]
FoneBook (PocketWare; $20) is a personal, pocket-sized, telephone book
program. It allows you to maintain a database of an unlimited number of names,
telephone numbers, address, and more. You can print them in a variety of
shapes, sizes, and styles, including a pocket-size format and on both sides of
standard paper. In fact, FoneBook will print ANY kind of straight text file in
these formats. Other features include an auto-dialer, the ability to sort on
the last name, company name, state, zip, or comment line, and the ability to
import files. It directly supports HP DeskJet Plus, HP LaserJet, and Epson FX
series printers and compatibles and allows customizing for other printers.

[HLRB]
HLRB (Pinnacle Software; $0) Handy Little Booklet Maker prints pocket size
booklets that can be used for telephone numbers and addresses or any other
kind of reference.

[PANFLE]
PanFle 0.2 (Sawada, Dr. Masaaki; $10-$20) is a resident utility that
intercepts output from your word processor and prints it in pamphlet style
(two pages on each side of the paper) while maintaining underlining and other
special features that your word processor and printer support. res:57k


-----File Printing Programs

[2COL]
2Col 5.1 (ARCaine Technology; $20) prints files in two columns. Up to eight
pages can be printed on a single page, and dot-matrix and HP DeskJet
compatible printers are supported.

[APRINT]
Aprint 1.0 (Metro Consulting Group, Inc.; $10) prints files which originated
from mainframes and which contain ANSI control codes. (The authors can no
longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.)

[B_PRINT]
B-Print (Hexagon Products; $0) prints text files using large characters on a
dot matrix printer. Fonts range from 8 to 32 dots per character. It supports
Epson and HP formats. It also supports some formatting commands which consist
of a period in column one and a two letter command. The program is intended
for the vision impaired, but could be used for any kind of printing where
large print is desired.

[BACKPG]
Backpage (Hicks, Robert; $0) will let you print files in reverse page order so
that the pages come out in correct order. It will also let you print on both
sides of the paper in the correct order. It will optionally print to file(s).
This should work with any printer and with any program that will print to
disk. However, it REQUIRES the pages in the file to be divided into pages with
formfeed characters and not simply padded to page length with blank lines.

[BOTH]
Both 3 (Feldmann, Peter F.; $20) allows printing text files on both sides of
the paper by printing all the odd pages, letting you turn the paper over, and
then printing the even pages. Some formatting of unformatted text files can
also be done.

[BYLINE]
Byline 2.0 (Rein, Tony; $3) is a utility for extracting and moving selected
portions of text files, either to a printer or to another disk file. The
purpose is to allow you to print only parts of a long document, or to add all
or part of one disk file to all or part of another.

[COLPRTR]
Column Printer 2.0 (Roddy, Thomas M.; $10) prints newspaper style columns of
text. It prints up to three columns per page and works with many dot matrix
printers, DeskJet, and laser printers. Included is a word wrap program which
can reformat text files into specific line widths.

[COLUMN]
The Columnist (Asysta Consultants; $15) is primarily for converting a column
of data into multiple columns by record. This can be of great value if, for
example, you have a mailing list program that does not support, say,
three-across labels, but will let you dump your data to an ASCII text file for
COLUMN to convert. COLUMN's output can be sent directly to the printer or to a
text file.

[CPRINT]
CPrint (Doman, Daniel; $0) is designed to print out files that have not been
formatted for printing already. That is, they lack page breaks and other
niceities.

[CPU]
Columnar Printing Utility (Dennis Derringer; $20) will print a text file in 1,
2 or 3 columns in "microjustified" print, if your printer allows such. CPU
also allows you to embed codes for underlined, bold, elongated, or any special
(such as color) options for which you enter your printer's control codes.

[DOCFORM]
Documentation Formatter (Pakin, Scott; $0) makes it easy to generate well
formatted program documentation with boldface print, underlined print,
margins, double or triple spacing, headers, and footers. It should work with
almost every printer.

[DOCMAST]
DocMaster (Anderson, Pat; $?) is a set of tools for printing documentation
files whether unformatted (ie: no page breaks and headers), formatted with
embedded formfeeds or with blank lines.

[DOCSMAS]
DocSmash 3.3 (Rettger, David W.; $10) will reduce the size of the printed
output of any text or document file. It uses Epson control codes to reduce the
print size and adjust line width to enable the printer to place four pages of
normal documentation on a single sheet of paper. Other features includes user
controlled word wrap; no truncating of print that is too wide for a single
line; and progress reports during printing. Other printers are supported in
addition to Epsons.

[DPS]
DPS-Document Processing System 1.0 (Sherrod, Phillip H. ASP; $25) formats text
files for printing. It can cross-reference specified text and automatically
fill in section and page numbers and make an index.

[FORM]
Form (Tauck, Eric; $?) is a text file formatting/printing program. Including
printing alternate pages only, printing a specified number of pages, starting
with a specified page, allowing various forms of page recognition, many
options for dealing with blank spaces and tabs, conversion to uppercase, lower
case, or first letter caps, using or ignoring EOF marker on input/output, and
more.

[FORMIT]
Formit (Emerald City Software; $15) is a sophisticated text formating/printing
program primarily designed for Epson compatible printers. It takes full
advantage of all the printer's features, allowing you to create professional
looking documents with multiple fonts and pitches without special programming.
With other printers, it will give you full control over page layout and
justification.

[LP14]
LP14 (Buerg, Vernon; $0) prints an ASCII file on a standard printer device at
either 66 or 88 lines per page. A title is printed at the top of each page
which contains the file name, creation date, and page number.

[MARGARIN]
Margarine 3.2 (Steenburgh, Chuck ASP; $15) adds left, top, and bottom margins
to text files. It calculates the maximum size buffer that can be added to each
line in the file without pushing the right margin off the screen/paper. It
also paginates documents.

[MICROTXT]
MicroText 4.5 (Campbell, George; $10) is an extensive file printing program.
It cuts down on the amount of paper needed to print documentation for
shareware programs by printing up to four pages on a regular sheet of paper.
It will also remove all extra blank lines and all control characters; replace
graphics characters with an asterisk or print them if your printer will do so;
word wrap long lines; add a left margin for hole punching; print in one or
two-column format, custom page lengths, pagination, and more. It will let you
preview the printout on screen. It will work with most dot-matrix printers.
Printing features include a printer selection menu, built-in printer drivers,
a TINY soft font for HPLJ users, support for Epson LQ and IBM Proprinters and
HPLJ II.

[MPRINT]
Multi-Print 4.0 (Doyan, Gerald P. ASP; $15) is a file printing program. A pull
down directory listing allows you to add a document to the queue on the fly.
Several printer font styles and Laser printer compatibility have been added.
You can `zoom' the text view window so that more of your documents text can be
seen. It also allows you to print on both sides of paper. Support for printers
configured as LPT2, LPT3, etc, has been added. DESQview compatibility is also
provided.

[NRO]
NRO is a file formatting and printing utility.

[PAGEBRK]
PageBrk (Kuhn, Bill; $?) prints a file of continuous text (ie: not broken up
into pages), adding a form feed every 55 lines and adding blank lines and,
optionally, a header and page numbers to the top of each page. While some
large file-printing utilities in the library will do this and a lot more, this
one is small and simple.

[PASCII]
PASCII 1.4 (Nemosoft Technologies, reg. fee: $0) prepares an ASCII file for
printing. It supports headers and footers, pagination, time and date, and
margins.

[PP]
PP is a file printer with the following options: print a header on each page
with filename, date, time and page number; specify number of lines to print
per page; add line numbers; expand tabs to a specified number of spaces; set
page width; and print multiple files.

[PR]
PR ($0) is a file printing utility with numerous options: multi-column output,
line wrap, page headers, line indenting, print more than one file on a page
(each in in its own column - handy for newsletters), line numbering, print to
a file, pause for paper change, specify page width, ignore unprintable
characters and strip high-order bits, and more.

[PRNPART]
PrnPart (Bennett, David; $0) will let you print specific pages of a text file
without having to print the whole file. It defines a page as being either 66
consecutive lines or a formfeed, whichever comes first. (The documentation
says "linefeed", but we're pretty sure he means "formfeed".)

[QP31A]
QuickPrint 3.1a (DeRose, Joseph L.; $0) is a text file viewing and printing
utility. It starts by displaying a list of files. When you select one, it lets
you scroll through it on the screen. If you elect to print it, QP tells you
how many pages are to be printed and displays a progress bar while printing,
as well as the page number being sent to the printer. QP will automatically
paginate and add page numbers for unformatted files. You can tag files for
printing several in a row. Also included is the ability to print with line
numbers; the ability to change lines printed per page; and to display the time
in the page footer.

[RPTP40]
Ron's Print To Printer 4.0 (Ron Loewy, reg. fee: $20) is a text file formatter
and printer support program. It supports page breaks, line numbering, headers
and footers, any combination of page length and page width and can print
multiple file documents. RPTP includes a front-end RPTPF program for DOS and
Windows.

[RUBICON]
Rubicon Publisher (Rubicon Computer Labs; $89) is a non-WYSIWYG desktop
publisher that supports LaserJet and PostScript printers. It comes with two
sets of HPLJ softfonts. We consider this to be more a text formatting or
typesetting program than what most people now think of as "Desktop
Publishing". It is probably aimed more at people who are now using TeX.
Control codes must be embedded in your text files with your editor. Graphics
integration is not supported, but a high degree of text placement control
(such as vertical justification) is provided.

[SMALLDO]
SmallDoc (Roper, David; $0) makes small pages of ASCII documentation (DOC and
TXT files that accompany the shareware/PD programs) and produces a small-sized
document that will fit in the three ring notebooks which are the same size as
the old, small three-ring IBM DOS binders or any of the other book/slip cover
sets of the same size. SMALLDOC provides the lines to cut on and marks the
positions where to punch the three holes. For document files that are already
formatted, SMALLDOC simply reduces the size and adds the margin on the left
side for the holes to be punched.

[TINYLST]
TinyList allows printing of text files on a minimum of paper using
superscripted and condensed print. A standard 8.5 by 11 inch piece of paper
can hold almost 20K of text. Turbo Pascal source is provided for modification
for most printers.

[TPRINT]
TPrint is a flexible text file printing program which allows selected portions
of your file to be listed. TPRINT is command-line driven and provides you with
on-line help so that the utility can be used without refering back to the
manual. TPRINT also provides for multiple copies and single-sheet feeding.


-----File Printing with Embedded Controls

These programs let you control the printer (fonts, underlining, etc.) by
embedding control codes in the file you are printing.

[PRINTPRO]
PrintPro (International No-Bugs Software; $?) is designed to let you control
your printer in two ways: change printer operation modes from within any
application at any time, and embed specialized printer control codes. PrintPro
will intercept the codes going to the printer and substitute the printer
control codes. (res:60k)

[PRINTSEL]
PrintSelector (Brook King Systems; $29) allows you to control your printer
settings either from a menu or by inserting codes into your files which a TSR
will translate into printer control codes from within any program as you print
the file. A non-TSR can also be used to print the files from DOS.

[PRT]
PRT (Yarus, Mike; $0) is a graphics processor which works with WordStar,
Sidekick, NewWord, or any other word processor which can embed control
characters in text files. PRT allows the user to draw any graphic symbol, or
combine such graphics into pictures, and will store, edit, and print these
graphics in context when it prints a text. PRT sends printer control sequences
to the Epson printer, allowing full use of its special features. PRT prints
WordStar document and ASCII (standard text) files, formatting and paging them,
as desired.

[RNF]
RNF (Liss, Ed and Kempton, Willett; $0) is a text formatting/printing program.
Features include pagination, automatic paragraph reform to fit specified page
margins, optional right justification, the ability to format chapter titles
and/or section headers and number them sequentially, the ability to format and
number lists and sublists, and the ability to mix multiple fonts in the same
document. Pascal source code is included.

[TECHFILE]
Tech File Print 2.01 (Walker, Mark; $0) is a text formatter for which you
embed the codes into text to control the printer.