USR Robots - Transcript - Hour 2, Segment 1

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David Lawrence: Hey, Milton. How are you?

Milton: Yeah good thank you.

David Lawrence: How can I help you?

Milton: When I tried to save a file, print a file, I will try to retrieve it later and I can*t, it*s gibberish.

David Lawrence: Well okay first of all let*s backup a second. When you are printing to file what do you think is going on?

Milton: I thought it was going printed to a file name instead of printing to the printer.

David Lawrence: Okay and--

Milton: David on that hard drive instead of going to the printer.

David Lawrence: Right but in what format do you think it*s going to print to that file. Do you think it*s going be readable text, as opposed to--?

Milton: Yeah that*s I would expect.

David Lawrence: No it*s not, it saves depending upon what kind of driver you have setup as your default driver. Usually the gibberish that you see is something called post-script and what you will see as a bunch of slashes and stars and numbers and so on and buried inside there will be your text but what that is, is the actual text that gets sent to the printer that the printer that interprets and prints things in the right size with the right graphics and so that. So what you are seeing is the behind the scenes text that is being sent to the printer now what you can do is you can always load that text later on as a print job without have it open up the application that created it. So for example if you are in Excel and you print to a file that file then can just be simply dragged and dropped on top of your printer and then the system knows okay just send all this information to the printer. Let the printer interpret it and it will print it out and that runs very, very quickly without you having to open up the program and that document again and having all of that text recreate it. No what you are trying do I think is *save as* a text file.

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