>Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:30:55 -0400 >From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: k and more.... > >On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 07:21:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 1. The layout of prtbmp.ah does not seem very logical to me. I would >> expect "Export as BMP" and "Convert to JPG" in two different dialogue >> boxes. Preview of .bmp file and print as .bmp should belong to the first >> one, ale the rest to the second one. > >See if you like this one better. <g> >http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/prtbmpah.htm
Yes, this one is very beautiful, I replaced it at once. Thank you, Glenn. BTW: it has become quite interesting to read the .ah files, at many places you can find sections that have been commented out and can be reactivated. Christof Lange >> 2. Mime.cfg: in view of the codepage mess I would not recommend to >> view rtf files with martha. The code is not available and it does not read >> Czech. Last week I had to open some ugly Czech rtf documents. I finally >> succeeded with 'unrtf'. The source code is available (for Linux and DOS) >> and a programmer will probably easily change the conversion for the 8bit >> characters: the existing version of the program produces html with West >> European entities. For East European documents, it should just leave the >> 8bit chars as they are. > >And you have just pointed-out one of the best features of Arachne. :) >By simply changing that one line in mime.cfg, you can choose whatever >RTF viewer you would like to use. Unfortunately in our days, these tools to convert rtf, doc, or pdf require users who are at least able to compile C programs in DOS (as it is common under Linux) and do some minor changes to the code on their own. I doubt that I will be able to do so, as the only compiler I succeeded to set up is an old Turbo C, and I do not understand C code at all. I just wanted to indicate that there is a lack of a ready compiled DOS program that takes into account East European or other exotic charsets. Thus the 'universally readable' RTF format becomes a trap, and it is much easier for me to open a Microsoft Word file than those East European RTFs. I do not consider this a part of Arachne development, but somebody actually should do that (or somebody in Prague-Zizkov should use his time not to learn the Roma language, but learn C <g>). >> 3. I am afraid that 171UE is less useable for me than 170r3. Xswap >> error returned, and it seems to be worse than ever. > >But without knowing what line you have placed into mime.cfg >to be used for viewing .SHT files..... it does nothing on my machine. file/.sht >HTM|[200]$1\\\n$eshtml.exe $1 $e$2\n$e\\ You are probably right, I should check, whether the SHTML APM is installed correctly on my machine. But in the past, the XSwap problem used to occur in connection with 'reload'. The above complicated three line long command is due to my RAM installation: '$1\' and '$e\' are just DOS command lines to change the drives. I have a lot of 'shtml' pages on my local hard disk. Anyway, I shall check that [200] memory restriction. Christof Lange
