On 2015-05-26 16:55, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2015-05-26 16:23 (UTC+0200):
Can't you choose another driver in that old software?
Felix Miata composed on 2015-05-26 07:41 (UTC-0400): "I'm not interested in rewriting a whole library of spreadsheets with a new printer language. I'm too old to try learning another, or figuring out how to translate what's in them to something else."
I'm not telling you to rewrite anything. Quattro surely used print drivers, as did all MsDOS programs. You simply choose a different driver from the limited, small or big, list. Maybe you will need the original disk.
I've already learned all the languages I'm ever going to learn. PS and HP were not among them. My hundreds of spreadsheets have Epson control codes embedded. That's how they will stay, not a task I could handle even if I wanted to.
You embedded the codes in the cells? Inside? That's a nightmare! Oh, my. If that's so, your only possibility is finding a printer that supports that language (no matter the price), or a program that reads that printed file and converts it to something else. Which is not impossible, because I did something of the sort on another life. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)