Hi David, the List, It seems that it's a way to edit .PDF files, on the fly, in using PHP. If so, it must be a way to edit the same .PDF files, directly from within MC.
> Can anyone advise the best way to get an accurate print out from MC using > styled (coloured) text? I am not getting accurate line spacing at the moment > using a Mac OS9.1 and a standard Epson Bubble jet printer. > > Which would be my best approach: > > 1) Print from another system (Linux or Windows) > > 2) Print using a postscript printer on the Mac > > 3) Export the coloured text into another application (such as Quark > Xpress) and print from there. > > If I took the last approach (attractive for other reasons) - does anyone > know of an easy way to keep the style information? I know I could write > Xpress tags and import the tagged text but unless anyone has some scripts > already to do this? - it would take a bit of doing. I've tried exporting as > HTML and seeing if I could find a route that way but so far no joy. Anyone > know an easy way to get the coloured text information into Quark/Word? > > NB each document is 400,000 words and the last script I ran over one of > these took 16 hours to complete! - so using a basic AppleScript is not > really possible. I guess there are any number of HTML import plugins for > Quark - aha I'll import the HTML direct into work - OK so that's solved -:) > > Background > I have to print a large amount of coloured text that has been styled / > coloured in MC. I have done a test with MC printing the text in the field > and have found that every 4 lines the line spacing is increased resulting in > regular white stripes across the page. > > I am only printing styled text in a field, and the field is of fixed line > height using a mono spaced font. I have not yet tested to see if this happen > due to MC scaling the image, whether it happens at larger text font sizes > (tried 4 and 6pt), or with other systems /printers ( I am using Mac OS9.1 > and an Epson bubble jet). > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list. Kind Regards, Pierre Sahores WEB & VPN applications & databases servers Inspection acad�mique de Seine-Saint-Denis Qualifier & produire l'avantage comp�titif Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
