>I want to convert a .prn file into text or any other VFP readable format. Anybody have knowledge of any conversion utility of such type?
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>Please help me.
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>Thanks in advance

A .prn file is a file that contains the commands that are sent to a printer to generate a print job. As you will have noticed, it is full of control characters, graphical elements, page setup commands, etc.

Parsing this file to extract the ASCII content would be difficult at best. If you were successful, the output would look terrible as it would have lost all formatting. If different printer drivers were used to generate different .prn files, you would need to create a different translation program for each printer driver that was used.

If you're really stuck you could print the document e.g. COPY PrtFile.prn LPT1 /B, then use a scanner and OCR software package to extract the text.

You could also look into the Adobe PDF file format (www.adobe.com) or John Koziol's FRX2Word converter available here on the UT.