Hey, nice one Norman! Just downloaded and installed and it worked first time!
It's brilliantly simple to use and does a bit more than I expected. So here goes for what I hope will be the first mini-review! You can open multiple Quill DOC files (which can have extension DOC or .DOC) in individual resizable windows. The document is formatted to fit the window. Bold, Underline, Sub and Superscript are shown (although on my 1024x768 screen the sub and super are a bit small to read). You can add to the formatting - just highlight the word or text you want to change and click on Bold, Underline, Subscript or Superscript (available from menus or via icons) as well as italics which are not available in Quill of course. You can cut and paste. It identifies Quill DOC files and must check the file preamble because it doesn't get confused between Word and Quill .DOC files. It doesn't load plain text files. You can export the text to HTML, Docbook Xml, text, or PDF. A 4K DOC file was output as a 20K PDF, 5K HTML, 3K plain text and 4K Docbook XML. Not played enough with it yet to see how sizes of PDFs vary as DOC file size increases. I'm used to Windoze programs adding file extensions automatically, QStripper doesn't. Load MY.DOC, enter a name of MY when exporting a PDF and you get a file called MY, not MY.PDF, which would have made life a bit easier in Windoze I guess. I'll just have to remember to enter the extension! Tools menu seems not to be implemented yet - wonder what that will do! The program always defaults to QStripper's own directory, even after loading something from another directory. The website has brief instructions, but you may not need them. Just remember to put the system support DLL files into the same directory as QStripper and away you go - it can then be run like any other Windoze program, except of course it's a QL-specific program in terms of what it does, opening up Quill to the big wide world of PDF and HTML! For a first release, top marks. The only downside (as is so often the case with Windoze programs) is having to download about 3MB of dll files to run a program which is only about 7OK in length! 3MB takes ages on dial-up, but as Norman says, you only have to download the system support files (dll's for Windows) once, from then on whenever the author updates the program, you only have to download the 70K or so of program itself, making it more like a QL program in terms of download size! Norman says that in time there'll be a Linux version too. -- Dilwyn Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:55 PM Subject: [ql-users] QStripper available now (for Windows) > Greetings Earthlings, > > Right then, as promised, QStripper has been put up on the Web for a > severe testing session. I've done my bit and found a couple of bugs > (details later) but nothing too 'heavy'. It's your turn now ! > > Until I have access to my Linux system with QT4 (it's running QT3 at > the moment) I've not got a setup running on Linux yet, however, > watch this space. > > The place to go is here : > > http://www.bountiful.demon.co.uk/qstripper.html > > > Basically, load your quill doc file either by : > > ... File | Open > ... Drag and Drop > ... Command line option > ... Dropping the quill docs onto the application icon > > and it will be opened and displayed in a format nearly reproducing > that of Quill - ie, bold, superscript, subscript and underline. You > can then edit the look and feel until it is how you want it. > Finally, you can export the file in one of these formats : > > ... text > ... HTML > ... DocBook XML > ... PDF > > Have fun. > > > Cheers, > Norman. > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/360 - Release Date: > 09/06/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.3/360 - Release Date: 09/06/2006 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
