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# 1  
Old 10-23-2011
remove print formating from printer output file
I have a print file taken from the print spooler and I want to delete all the formatting leaving only the text. If you vi the file it shows "\304\304 ...." which translates into a printed line on print output.
I need to be able to edit and pass this file to another process
Thnaks
# 2  
Old 10-25-2011
did you try some things like :

Code:
strings yourspool >newspool.txt

Code:
tr -cd [:print:] <yourspool >newspool.txt

Code:
tr -cd [:graph:] <yourspool >newspool.txt

Or some other characheter class (see below) depending on what you want to filter out
Code:
                alnum        <alphanumeric characters>
                alpha        <alphabetic characters>
                blank        <whitespace characters>
                cntrl        <control characters>
                digit        <numeric characters>
                graph        <graphic characters>
                ideogram     <ideographic characters>
                lower        <lower-case alphabetic characters>
                phonogram    <phonographic characters>
                print        <printable characters>
                punct        <punctuation characters>
                rune         <valid characters>
                space        <space characters>
                special      <special characters>
                upper        <upper-case characters>
                xdigit       <hexadecimal characters>

(that was on a FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3)


nroff and pr may help as well.

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Last edited by ctsgnb; 10-25-2011 at 05:23 PM..
# 3  
Old 10-27-2011
thanks
Removed all graphical and control codes but left the output as one continuos string. any way to keep the line structure
# 4  
Old 10-27-2011
Depends what the file actually is, whether it still contains that structure at all.
# 5  
Old 10-28-2011
the file is capture of a printed invoice (from a cobol prog on sco 5.0.5) i need to clean the file of graphics/formatting, do a new layout and change the tax calcs and then reprint in a pdf format.
# 6  
Old 11-02-2011
Still depends what's actually in the file. Depending on the format, there may not be rawtext left.
# 7  
Old 11-02-2011
there is raw text - currently I cut by line number to a new file before working on the text. The end of line ^m is removed but not the line drawing code.
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