On Tuesday 29 January 2019 23:50:44 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 28.01.19 11:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The guy is still dragging his feet on english docs in a pdf format > > for this thing though. Docx is damned sure a looser IMNSHO. Even the > > latest 6.1.4 version of LibreOffice can't render it in a usable > > format. > > Dunno how 'orrible a plain text rendition from docx2txt would be, but > then there's not much to be expected in that format. > > $ apt-cache search docx > docx2txt - Convert Microsoft OOXML files to plain text > pandoc - general markup converter > > I've heard of pandoc being used, but whether with shouts of joy, I'm > again uninformed. It also came up in a search for "pdf", so may very > well be able to do the conversion for you. Worth a try, perhaps. > > Erik > Google Translate did the best job so far. But it prints a letter sized page in landscape format, clipping off the bottom 1.5" of the page, w/o carrying it over to the next page. Its better than nothing and did get me usable English. Incomplete of course because of the page clipping. Changing the portrait to landscape in the printer dialogue has no effect. I did 3 copies of that 64 page thing trying to get a portrait mode printout. Since that printer can do up to tabloid, 11x17 output, that might have worked but I'll be dipped if I'm going to feed 64 tabloid sheets thru the hand feed slot in the back of the printer. Sheet alignment is very critical, and I've made a feed tray but theres nothing on the back of the printer to give it a fixed alignment to the feed slot. Right Pain In The Ass is what it is. I have used it for rockhopper printouts though. They can usually be fitted to about 8 sheets of tabloid.
Watch the heat down there Eric, I'm hearing reports of above 40C from your neck of the woods. Thats killer heat. Do what we call swamp (evaporative) coolers help? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
