Looking for old DOS / Windows book printing software.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Looking for old DOS / Windows book printing software.

there was a windows version - i used it for a while.
and the fucking file format was not compatable with the dos version that can be imported into everything modern!

A Windows version of WordPerfect? The DOS version is freaking insane! No mouse support, all keyboard shortcuts, no menus to see. I have no idea how people used this program back in the day! At least DOS's edit had a menu you could visibly see!!!

[Silveruser]

Re: Looking for old DOS / Windows book printing software.

There was also Lotus Manuscript out at that time. It could do wonderful things with formatting, contents and indexing.

George

[stj]

Re: Looking for old DOS / Windows book printing software.

there was a windows version - i used it for a while.
and the fucking file format was not compatable with the dos version that can be imported into everything modern!

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Looking for old DOS / Windows book printing software.

I think I figured it out. I really do think it was created using WordPerfect. Maybe 5.1. I dunno. I've never used the program before. I noticed it does include the right font though. I'm hoping there was a Windows version back in the 90's version that I can run in Windows XP. Not really looking forward to using a DOS version.

[Spork Schivago]

Hello everyone.

I'm looking for old DOS, maybe Windows 3.11 book printing software. Does anyone remember anything that could print books? I have a manual printed on heavyweight paper. It has a copyright of 1993. It looks like the pages were printed in landscape. The first sheet of paper contains the first page and the last page. The second sheet of paper contains page 2 and the second to last page, etc. Page 32 and page 33 are the middle and are one sheet.

I believe I've identified the font used. It seems to be something called Century Schoolbook. The text doesn't seem to be monospaced. The table of contents looks like this picture that's attached. The ...'s that are after the title and before the numbers (like Introduction............3) seem to line up with each other. For example, the first line's ....'s line up vertically with the second line's ...'s.

The front cover uses the same font but the letters are much bigger, maybe 72 point or something along those lines and the program seems to support the extended ASCII table because they use ASCII art on the front cover there.

Does anyone know of any programs from back in the 90's that could print books like this? I was thinking maybe that old WordPerfect or something like that. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks!