On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:30, John Mellor wrote: > I think there is a technical expression for this but I hope I can make > myself clear. I put a Gnome Printer Applet in my panel so I can print > files by dragging them straight from the file manager (Nautilus) and > dropping them onto the applet. Very convenient I thought for a quick > copy without opening Abiword. However, the output is a verbatim copy of > all the formatting info. The same happens if I print from the X-printer > utility. I presume both these think the file is plain text. Both use lpr > as the command, but I cannot find any argument that might resolve this. > Can anyone help please?
AbiWord files are just plain text, as all XML files are. Drag a HTML file to your printer and you'll get just the HTML tags and not the pretty display that netscape will show you on screen. You can run abiword --print=file.ps or abiword --print=|lpr to print to a file or to a printer. Dom
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