[ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?
Greetings Earthlings, I'm playing around with Trolltech's QT4 on WIndows and Linux at the moment, and I've taken my old 'baby' the Quill Stripper (aka WinStripper) and I'm rewriting it using QT - this will, hopefully, let me see how easy it is to use QT, how easy it is to write cross-platform applications and convert WinStripper to Linux. I am toying with the options to convert a quill doc into the following : - text format, as at present. - html format, complete with bold, underline, sub and superscript. - DocBook XML format - PDF format. I'm actually quite excited about the last option as PDF files are 'taking over the world' and I actually have it working in a rudimetary fashion. Is this of any interest to anyone ? The project is still in the development stages, I'm still learning QT4 and I have a new compiler set up to use as well. I'm hoping to build the application using a 'plugin' format so that I can 'easily' add new WordProcessor formats as and when required. I'm experimenting with too many things all at once though :o) Hopefully, I'll have plugins working, plus quill and Perfection plugins developed 'soon'. As the version of QT4 I'm using is Open Source, I am obliged to supply the full source code to anyone who wants it. This is a pleasure to do and I've got no qualms whatsoever about doing it. Watch this space. Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would be useful to go both ways - like for example convert a QL Quill_doc in to a M$ Word_doc, and then vice-versa. Possibly! I think if converted to HTML it can bbe imported into Word anyway, then saved as a Word doc. As I use Open Office, I don't know for sure. I'll look into it, but the format of a Word Doc file is the property of Microsoft and is not published anywhere. Not only that, it changed dramatically between releases of Word - just to keep the guys at OOo on their toes :o) I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the file size can get quite large. Good luck with the coding . Thanks. Cheers, Norman. PS. It's been too quiet here recently, I thought I would stir things up a bit :o) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?
I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the file size can get quite large. Compression factors are variable in pdf. I ca imagine a DIY pdf might be huge, in the way an MS WORD html is, setting font type,size colour each line. Sometime ago I needed to email a WORD doc, text pix - 500k, the pdf 75k, I was on dialup at the time. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 03/05/2006 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?
Malcolm Cadman wrote: snip I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the file size can get quite large. Not necessarily. I know the defaults do, but (on Acrobat Distiller anyway) there are plenty of options to reduce the file size. ie image resolutions and compression etc. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Malcolm Cadman wrote: snip I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the file size can get quite large. Not necessarily. I know the defaults do, but (on Acrobat Distiller anyway) there are plenty of options to reduce the file size. ie image resolutions and compression etc. Sure, yet most users are not aware of the tricks available. I now get a lot of PCF's, and they are usually unnecessarily large. However, I am sure that Norman's new opus will have some ingenious options within it to cope. -- Malcolm Cadman ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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- Original Message - From: Roy wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], hitchies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Re: Roy (Wood's) === 'a whole series about writing a BOOT file for QPAC2 and how to use that program and get to the useful bits. .' == Thank you Roy. I'll have to work on it **and** subscribe to QL Toady! ;) In many ways this is what QL Toady is all about and you should all be subscribing to it (ruthless plug) if nothing else, to help support the QL community. For those of you who don't subscribe I should point out that there is a lot of useful information in it. Some issues get a little over technical but then others redress the balance. Dilwyn did a superb job as editor and Geoff is proving to be just as tenacious. It has been going for over 10 years now - beating all other QL publications! Oh oh - you forgot one Roy - you may get mails all the best - Bill ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
