Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +0000, Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not
> >hand-written.  However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a
> >template.
> >
> >Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with
> >my Epson dot-matrix printer?  I could feed that in (its an LQ-2080 and
> >will do plain paper), use the enter key in the traditional typewriter
> >way, etc.
 
>   While not exactly a "typewriter", I scan an image of the form, save 
> it as an image file and then load the image into The GIMP.  Before I 
> continue I save the file with a slightly different filename to protect 
> the original in case I need to start over.

The problems are two:

1.	I don't have a scanner

2.	The forms are sometimes multipart or have to be their origional 
	form, not a copy.

Thanks anyway.

Doug.