Sorry Dennis, but this is what I got:
Family Questionnaire *
1 *
I am researching the Berdan family, which came from France, *
through Holland in the mid 1600's. I would very much * appreciate as
much information as you can provide to me * about your family. Of
course, returning this form is not * mandatory, but it would certainly
help me in my research, and * I would appreciate it very much. *
Please return this form with as much of the information as * you know
to: David Berdan, PO Box 1800, Duvall, WA 98019. * For your
convenience, a self-addressed, stamped envelope is * enclosed.
Husband's Name: *
Birth Date: Place: Christening Date: Place: *
Death Date: Place: *
etc.
when opened in my text editor; no format other than that. I assume the
asterisks represent your original line breaks, but there is no way to tell
if the receiver has the same editor configuration as the sender. As for the
form itself, better served just typing it out in the email, line for line.
Wm Voss
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I have attached the Blank Form printed to the Generic/Text Printer
device. The default extension using this device is .prn so I have
changed it .txt for this exercise.
Page 1 is as follows (wrapped to 70 columns for e-mail):
Family Questionnaire
1
I am researching the Berdan family, which came from France,
through Holland in the mid 1600's. I would very much
appreciate as much information as you can provide to me
about your family. Of course, returning this form is not
mandatory, but it would certainly help me in my research, and
I would appreciate it very much.
Please return this form with as much of the information as
you know to: David Berdan, PO Box 1800, Duvall, WA 98019.
For your convenience, a self-addressed, stamped envelope is
enclosed.
Husband's Name:
Birth Date: Place:
Christening Date: Place:
Death Date: Place:
Burial Date: Place:
Husband's Father's Name:
Husband's Mother's Name:
Husband's Paternal Grandfather's Name:
Husband's Paternal Grandmother's Name:
Husband's Maternal Grandfather's Name:
Husband's Maternal Grandmother's Name:
Wife's Name (maiden name):
Birth Date: Place:
Christening Date: Place:
Death Date: Place:
Burial Date: Place:
Wife's Father's Name:
Wife's Mother's Name:
Wife's Paternal Grandfather's Name:
Wife's Paternal Grandmother's Name:
Wife's Maternal Grandfather's Name:
Wife's Maternal Grandmother's Name:
Marriage Date: Place:
Is this what you a trying to achieve?
Dennis
On Sun, 27 May 2001 18:25:47 -0700, Wm Voss wrote:
>I only attempted the metafile as an experiment -- I have nothing
against
>PDF
>files as such. I do wish, however, that the third-party generator
that
>Legacy uses did a better job (it still makes a hash of reports) and
the
>results could be parsed by Acrobat and edited. As produced, they are
near
>useless, though the blank form is acceptable (though un-editable).
And I
>would be interested to hear how and what you are printing to a
generic
>printer for conversion to a text file -- the Family report does not
>include
>the RTF option that I can see; printing anything else gives you
nothing,
>as
>I said before, but a long list of unformatted words. Saving as a
text file
>is not an option for blank forms, only PDF or Metafile.
>
>Please do not mis-understand; I am not just kicking at loose boards
here.
>I
>would be very grateful for a workable solution to these report
problems,
>which I consider Legacy's only real drawback.
>
>
>Wm Voss
>
>
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Dennis
>Allsopp
>Sent: Sunday, 27 May, 2001 17:49
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re:Legacy - Help please
>
>
>Why go to all the trouble trying to put things into Word format when
>Acrobat
>is cross-platform and the reader is a free download whereas Word is
not
>and
>PDF output capability is built in to Legacy? What did everyone do
before
>the
>PDF facility was made available?
>
>Over time I have found that many of the so called MS Word
>readers/interpreters do a substandard job of retaining all
formatting when
>reading the file. Also, not everybody uses the same version of Word,
those
>will older versions cannot read the newer, etc. We have this problem
>across
>the various branches of the organisation in which I work.
>
>I cannot speak for retail practices elsewhere in the world but the
many of
>retailers in Australia bundle Lotus Smartsuite with new PCs and has
been
>for
>the last couple of years.Surely, a sizable number of people would be
using
>Lotus Word Pro as a consequence of this alone.
>
>If you really need text printed to file you can always set up the
>Generic/Text printer driver and print to File to obtain a text file.
You
>will not get all the lines and borders but you will get text
formatted.
>
>Dennis
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