Text formatting when Saving to .txt

[Mark Dunham]

I am saving input from large text boxes to .txt below is kind of an example the text editor here removed some of the spacing. My question is does any have suggestion on formatting large text box text so when it gets printed it does not get cut off or do I need to save as .doc or .rtf or am I looking at this wrong and making it overly complicated.

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[tsh73]

when it gets printed it does not get cut off

It gets printed via WHAT exactly?
Size it will take depends on font & font size & line spacing & print margins
Plain text has no control on any of this.

You likely could calibrate your setup - like, get how wide line could be and how much lines fits to page - but hardly could count on user has same setup.

My suggestion would be then printing spit to something with print preview.
(you can just call wordpad or write (actually calls wordpad), or save as HTML - any browser has print preview)

Just my 0.02$

[Rod]

If it is a few lines of text as you show it should not be getting cut off. If ther3 are lots of blank lines then perhaps you exceed the page length and the bottom lines will not print.

So remove blank lines? Are you printing the .txt file within Liberty, if so how? Can we see the printing code.

[Mark Dunham]

Aug 1, 2021 13:13:42 GMT -5 tsh73 said:

when it gets printed it does not get cut off

It gets printed via WHAT exactly?
Size it will take depends on font & font size & line spacing & print margins
Plain text has no control on any of this.

You likely could calibrate your setup - like, get how wide line could be and how much lines fits to page - but hardly could count on user has same setup.

My suggestion would be then printing spit to something with print preview.
(you can just call wordpad or write (actually calls wordpad), or save as HTML - any browser has print preview)

Just my 0.02$

If I print a physical copy on 8x11 paper. I think HTML might be the best route I can format it with HTML as well. Thanks.

[Mark Dunham]

Aug 1, 2021 15:36:34 GMT -5 Rod said:

If it is a few lines of text as you show it should not be getting cut off. If ther3 are lots of blank lines then perhaps you exceed the page length and the bottom lines will not print.

So remove blank lines? Are you printing the .txt file within Liberty, if so how? Can we see the printing code.

It is the width of the text. When saving to .txt format the textbox wraps in my program but when saving to .txt it does not wrap so it does get cut off because it is wider than a sheet of paper. I am saving to .txt and letting the user print from there. I do like the HTML route the tsh73 suggested I don't know why I didn't think of it probably because I am too close to the project. LOL

[Mark Dunham]

Just wanted to show on the thread what I was able to accomplish with the suggestions provided. I still have more to do but I am now on the right track. Thank you all again.

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[tsh73]

Try table

(frankly speaking, I did this in Open Office, but saved as xhtml it is pretty sleek)

[Mark Dunham]

Aug 2, 2021 12:34:03 GMT -5 tsh73 said:

Try table

(frankly speaking, I did this in Open Office, but saved as xhtml it is pretty sleek)

I will have to check it out. Thank you