Digital Precision Limited Software

[Mr_Navigator]

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.

[Martin_Head]

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?

I've got the disk based manual for "Professional Publisher DTP System". That came with DP's "The Collection".

Though, I suspect that's not the one you want.

[RWAP]

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?

I've got the disk based manual for "Professional Publisher DTP System". That came with DP's "The Collection".

Though, I suspect that's not the one you want.

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 ...

[Ralf R.]

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 ...

With a suitable PDF printer driver (freePDF or similar), every text based output gives a searchable PDF .

[RWAP]

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.

[Derek_Stewart]

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.

[Ralf R.]

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.

I know, but is this also with only left justified text? l+r justified ok.

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:

[Martin_Head]

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

[RWAP]

OK so who is going to volunteer to do this - instead of everyone seeming to think that I will do it....

[XorA]

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?

G