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dbarton:

I'd like a small utility to right click a text file to print it, rather than having to load up an editor each time. I'd like it to remember my preferred font and size..

Anything?

worstje:
If you do a notepad.exe /p myfile.txt, does that print it the way you want? (You may want to configure notepad to display the stuff the way you want first, obviously.) If it does, it is trivial to add an option in a context menu to print .txt files using that command.

MilesAhead:
On W7 if I right click a text file and hit Print, notepad prints it.  Don't know about remembering fonts etc.. as my printer is not hooked up at the moment.

But I could see it was notepad putting the job in the print queue.

cchian:
Using worstje's idea: make a batch file with the following line:  notepad.exe /p %1
Now drag the text file to the batch file and it will send it to the default printer, don't know about your preferred font and size but maybe it can be tweaked a little more.

dbarton:
Nice idea, but how to configure a font in notepad just for this??
Not sure it offers that.

If I change font in notepad it remembers that new font for all instances.

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