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FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« on: March 25, 2008, 02:40:26 AM »
Can anyone help me with getting this macro working?

I went to the Aminet website and looked up the docs for the macro.  It says you need "gs850" and gives a website for obtaining this.  I went to this website and downloaded what I could, but it was difficult as the page kept constantly refreshing and it took ages.  Having got the ghostscript version I dearchived it and put it in my Programs partition, but it didn't work.  I also tried an assign, which stopped the requesters asking for the program, but when I tried the macro it didn't convert anything at all.

I want to be able to use this, as PDF is quite a good way of sending lengthy documents to friends who don't have Amigas and are using Gates Crates!!!  My son has Adobe Acrobat reader, and it is fantastic at decoding and printing PDFs.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards to everyone, and it's nice to be back.

Kathy
 

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Re: FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2008, 03:43:59 AM »
Thanks for replying zyphoid, and glad to know it's not just me!!!!

I hope someone has an answer.

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Kathy
 

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Re: FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2008, 06:39:04 AM »
It is a different "Ghostscript" to the one I am using with TurboPrint.  I went to the Aminet site when I started having problems with this macro, and this was where I got the information about the "whoosh" website.

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Re: FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2008, 06:42:42 AM »
I'll give that a whirl too, but I really wanted to convert from FinalWriter as I use it all the time.  Thanks anyway.

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Re: FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2008, 06:46:00 AM »
Can this ONLY be done with a postscript printer?

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Re: FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2008, 07:10:52 AM »
Yes I did Nearly-Right - someone's got a good memory.  I'm glad to be away from the place, and it's must nicer being where I am.  However, social services are still the same sods here as everywhere else - but that's a different story!!!!!

No I don't use IBrowse - couldn't get along with it so I use AWeb, which I find much better.

I do, however, use TurboPrint.  I find it is a brilliant program, and their Florian is very helpful.  I have asked him about printer drivers for various second hand printers I have picked up, and he has always come back with an answer.  It's lovely to know there is still someone who so actively supports the Amiga and makes such a good printing facility.

I abandoned ED years ago.  I now use EdWord, or if that refuses to insert anything more into a large file I use QED.  I like QED too, and have used it for many years, but it seems to lack many of the editing facilities of EdWord - unless I am using it wrongly!!!

I'm not really bothered about sending graphics to anyone in PDF format - I can easily send a JPEG file as an email attachment - but I often need to send text files to others, and if I send it as an attached text file created in EdWord to some people I get emails back telling me they can't read it.  I used to wonder why, since I have a converter with which I can make Word documents into ASCII files, but having seen the performance on my son's Gates Crate that he has to go through each time he encounters an unknown file - a whole list of programs as options into which to load the file - I wonder no more!!  What a performance!!

So PageStream will do that will it?  I had PageStream2 some time ago, but abandoned it because I hate menus and only usually use the buttons in FinalWriter.  I was aware it was a good program, and only abandoned it for this one reason.  I never tried PageStream3.  Is it still available commercially?  I wouldn't mind trying it again.  I seem to remember PageStream2 had a FinalCopy importer, which may do also for FinalWriter.  Maybe I could interchange to suit myself - or maybe I should learn to walk before I start to run!!!!  I have tried a number of programs and some I still have on my hard drive.  Others I have abandoned as being surplus to requirements, or because they didn't seem to work properly for me.  Let me know about PageStream.

I have only once amended a script - and by some miracle it worked!!  It will be quite a challenge doing that again.

By the way Nearly-Right where do you come from?

Regards Kathy
 

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Re: FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2008, 12:18:33 AM »
Thanks for that.  I don't like buying online, so I usually send the money to a friend of mine who is used to doing it and he sends for it for me.  I'll certainly go on the website and have a look though.

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Re: FinalWriter ConverttoPDF macro
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2008, 10:30:26 PM »
Many thanks for that.  I went to the PageStream site and asked a load of questions.  Tonight I got a reply and that may well be my way forward.  All I need to do now is persuade my son he should buy a program that is compatible with the Amiga!!!!!!!

Regards Kathy