On 1/30/19 2:17 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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
In theory since postscript is just a programming language it should be
possible to rotate the text to portrait and make it fit. I used to do
simple stuff in postscript but full blown documents are complex. Please
note the usual caution: "the difference between theory and practice is
much larger than theory predicts".
I wish you the best of luck.
Dave
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