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Re: Printing Internet Drafts

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Tue, 23 October 2001 20:10 UTC

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Ting.Cai@TeraBeam.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a question on how to print Internet Draft with the right 
> pagination on Windows machine.
> 
> Take the document below as an example,
> 
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-msword-template-06.txt
> 
> If I print this document from Internet Explorer or notepad, the page 
> breaks occur at the wrong place.


Neither interprets CTL-L as page break.


You can replace "^L" with "\page" and save as "*.rtf", and reopen in 
Word. However, see below. Even the CTL-L's aren't guaranteed correct.

> If I type "type draft-hain-msword-template-06.txt > LPT1" in the cmd 
> window. The page breaks appears at the right place, but the font has 
> changed.
> 
> Do you have any suggestion on how to print the draft with right 
> pagination on Windows machines?


FWIW, ID's don't necessarily have the 'right' pagination on any OS. 
Pagination is enforced for RFCs only, AFAICT.

Joe

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