Black Ice Software
September Developer News
Volume 12, Issue 9 - September, 2007
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How to Set Word Coordinates in the Text Output File

 

By default the Black Ice printer driver creates one “style and position” entry for text having the same style. For example:

 

[[1063,300,1488,344][10][,,][Courier New]]New Text Document

 

If you would like to generate an entry for each word, you must add the following section to the INI file of the printer driver:

 

[Text Output Settings]

Display Word Coordinates=1

 

If this section is in the INI file, the generated text output file will contain style and position information separated for each word. For example:

 

[[1063,300,1138,344][10][,,][Courier New]]New[[1138,300,1163,344][10][,,][Courier New]] [[1163,300,1263,344][10][,,][Courier New]]Text[[1263,300,1288,344][10][,,][Courier New]] [[1288,300,1488,344][10][,,][Courier New]]Document

 

This printer driver INI file is in the windows’ driver directory (at 2 locations), for example C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\ and C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86.