Digital Precision Limited Software
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
I read somewhere that David Batty always liked the name Digital Precision which was why when the name became available he took it, perhaps just for personal reasons.
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
I've got the disk based manual for "Professional Publisher DTP System". That came with DP's "The Collection".RWAP wrote:Does anyone have:
a) A scanned manual for Desktop Publisher
b) A better scanned manual for Desktop Publisher Special Edition (and the software)?
c) A better scanned manual for Professional Publisher?
Though, I suspect that's not the one you want.
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Hmm yes we need the manual - the problem is that it will be in Perfection format - it needs converting to PDF - I know you can do it via QPCPrint, but I am not sure if that will create a searchable PDF ...Martin_Head wrote:I've got the disk based manual for "Professional Publisher DTP System". That came with DP's "The Collection".RWAP wrote:Does anyone have:
a) A scanned manual for Desktop Publisher
b) A better scanned manual for Desktop Publisher Special Edition (and the software)?
c) A better scanned manual for Professional Publisher?
Though, I suspect that's not the one you want.
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
With a suitable PDF printer driver (freePDF or similar), every text based output gives a searchable PDF .RWAP wrote:Martin_Head wrote:Hmm yes we need the manual - the problem is that it will be in Perfection format - it needs converting to PDF - I know you can do it via QPCPrint, but I am not sure if that will create a searchable PDF ...
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That is not necessarily so - hence the problem with the SBASIC/SuperBASIC Reference Manual - Text87 adds mico adjustments between each letter, so for example,
"This is a line"
becomes
"T h i s i s a l i n e"
So searching for "line" would not find it!
Not sure if Perfection's output does anything similar.
"This is a line"
becomes
"T h i s i s a l i n e"
So searching for "line" would not find it!
Not sure if Perfection's output does anything similar.
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
Hi,
The manual could be saved as ASCII Text and imported into LibreOffice, reformatted and saved as PDF, which is searchable.
If you want I can do this.
The manual could be saved as ASCII Text and imported into LibreOffice, reformatted and saved as PDF, which is searchable.
If you want I can do this.
Regards,
Derek
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
I know, but is this also with only left justified text? l+r justified ok.RWAP wrote:Text87 adds mico adjustments between each letter, so for example,
"This is a line"
becomes
"T h i s i s a l i n e"
So searching for "line" would not find it!
Not sure if Perfection's output does anything similar.
Anyway, simply testing, Perfection, the doc and a PDF driver for Windows with QPC+QPCprint. Which is easier ?
NB: I had a look at QPLQ from TT. This put every character separately on the paper (to give justified text with non-proportional Epson fonts) but the PDF is searchable:
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
RWAP wrote: Hmm yes we need the manual - the problem is that it will be in Perfection format - it needs converting to PDF - I know you can do it via QPCPrint, but I am not sure if that will create a searchable PDF ...
Bit of a roundabout solution, but you could print out the manual from Perfection, and then scan it into a word processor with an OCR reader. Proof read/re-format, and then save it as a PDF
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
OK so who is going to volunteer to do this - instead of everyone seeming to think that I will do it....
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Re: Digital Precision Limited Software
I am not familiar with the software but did anyone check with a hex editor that the ASCII is not just sitting there in an easy to filter/extract form?
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