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I need to print an incoming e-mail received by Outlook 2000 to a plain
text file or "dumb" printer (no graphics at all.) The output is not as
expected (details below.) The messages causing problems are in rich
text format (this works OK when the messages are in pure text, but
that's not always the case); it appears outlook 2000 is trying to
format RTF messages before printing, but is not succeeding.
When I configured a Generic/Text only printer, then printed the
message to a file (an option given at the time printing is requested,
which I did to investigate and try to isolate the problem), the
resulting file contains numerous extraneous spaces and newlines, as if
the driver is attempting to simultate a font-size mismatch or
something (and of course the file is basically unusable given that
situation.) The excess data is systematic (not random), so with
significant difficulty it could probably be filtered out, but it would
not be an ideal solution. Much experimentation with fonts, font sizes,
and other options in the printer driver itself changed nothing. Much
experimentation with page setup and related stuff in outlook 2000
changed nothing. I saw a couple of messages in m.p.o.p dated in year
2000 discussing this, and at the time this was considered a bug in
outlook 2000. Has someone since found a solution to the problem?
Tnx,
Dave
(e-mail address removed)
text file or "dumb" printer (no graphics at all.) The output is not as
expected (details below.) The messages causing problems are in rich
text format (this works OK when the messages are in pure text, but
that's not always the case); it appears outlook 2000 is trying to
format RTF messages before printing, but is not succeeding.
When I configured a Generic/Text only printer, then printed the
message to a file (an option given at the time printing is requested,
which I did to investigate and try to isolate the problem), the
resulting file contains numerous extraneous spaces and newlines, as if
the driver is attempting to simultate a font-size mismatch or
something (and of course the file is basically unusable given that
situation.) The excess data is systematic (not random), so with
significant difficulty it could probably be filtered out, but it would
not be an ideal solution. Much experimentation with fonts, font sizes,
and other options in the printer driver itself changed nothing. Much
experimentation with page setup and related stuff in outlook 2000
changed nothing. I saw a couple of messages in m.p.o.p dated in year
2000 discussing this, and at the time this was considered a bug in
outlook 2000. Has someone since found a solution to the problem?
Tnx,
Dave
(e-mail address removed)