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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