Hi,
I do in fact want to render it directly in view. I thought that someone had
a viewer that they were using, but that it didn't the ability to open other
documents. I think it was something similar to the easy-VID viewer?
Thanks!!
Ammon
On Monday 01 July 2002 12:43 am, you wrote:
> >> Has anyone built a good make-doc-pro viewer? I would like to
> >> be able to open any doc I choose and see it in its awesome format. Any
>
> ideas?
>
> >Hi Ammon, can you explain it a bit more to me? You want a viewer, where
>
> you can
>
> >open a make-doc-pro formatted TXT file and immediatly get the HTML output?
> >Robert
>
> I think he just wants something that will take a make-doc-pro document and
> render it directly in view/VID, sort of like a quick "preview" function.
>
> I have played around with variations on this theme, and the problem (much
> like trying to render HTML), is that while it is easy to render line based
> styles in view (eg. an <h1> followed by an <h2> followed by a <p> tag, etc)
> it is quite difficult to do intra-line styles (eg. <strong>, <emphasis>
> tags, or any intra-line colour changes). I got so stumped by this that I
> ended up creating a simple line-oriented markup language that easily
> renders to view (and PDF, using pdf-maker.r), nothing flash but it enables
> quick and easy help dialogs and simple letters / reports.
>
> I must add that rendering to a pageless scheme (eg. html) is significantly
> easier than a "page-aware" format (such as PDF), as you don't have to worry
> about how to determine where your rendered text is going to appear (and by
> implication, *when* you need to add page break(s)), but for printed reports
> PDF (or rtf if I ever get around to it!) is greatly preferable to html.
>
> So, after all that, how is make-doc-pro PDF support going Robert? I can
> certainly appreciate the difficulties you will / are encountering! ;)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ashley
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