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# A Review of Sidewriter

The Sidewriter documentation makes modest sounding claims: Sidewriter prints spreadsheet files (exported from Abacus to Quill) or plain text files in landscape print (sideways). Sidewriter offers options on fonts, output destination, 9 or 24 pin printer, print intensity via number of printing passes, paper width, file line width (sideways down the page), columns per inch horizontally, and linespacing (viz, inter-character spacing) for 9 and 24 pin printers.