Re: [NTLK] [dev] Conversion to RTF, programatically?

From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 02:53:51 EST


À (At) 22:44 -0600 11/11/02, Aaron Jon Reichow écrivait (wrote) :
>After selling my Newton on here a while back, I've been allowed back into
>the beautiful world of the Newt through the permanant loan of a 2100 for
>an attempt to port Squeak Smalltalk (http://www.squeak.org) to the Newton
>OS.

Welcome back Aaron.

>Does anyone know how to convert a note or works document to an RTF
>on the Newton itself?

NCU does it, not the Newton.

>The other possibility for gaining a way to do printing or putting notes on
>the web is that the Newton itself can generate PostScript for printing to
>a PS printer. Does anyone know how to trigger this, getting the
>PostScript version of a Note or Works doc programatically?

I had a look, but it doesn't seem very simple. I'll probably look
further because this G3 will be used as a CUPS printing server which
the Newton can't talk to.

>My vision is that I could write a little app that uses the NIE to upload
>an RTF or PostScript file to a web server, where it would be processed-
>printed or converted to HTML/GIF for the web.

Have you considered NPDS?

Paul

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