Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Compression factors are variable in pdf. I ca imagine a DIY pdf might be > huge, in the way an MS WORD html is, setting font type,size colour each line. > > Sometime ago I needed to email a WORD doc, text & pix - 500k, the pdf 75k, > I was on dialup at the time. >

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not necessarily. I know the defaults do, but (on Acrobat Distiller > anyway) there are plenty of options to reduce the file size. > ie image resolutions and compression etc. > Morning Tony, the built in PDF printer with QT4 has three resolutions, screen (75 dpi ?),

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > try to use freePDF (google), which is freeware and installs a PDF printer > Morning Ralf, the PDF driver is already built into QT4 - it comes as standard with the 'printer' interface (QPrinter). Cheers, Norman. ___ QL-

Re: [ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs)

2006-05-04 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> It has been going for over 10 years now - beating all other QL >> publications! > >Oh oh - you forgot one Roy - you may get mails > >all the best - Bill Yes I should have said commercial publications. I have always seen the

Re: [ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs)

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Waugh
- Original Message - From: "Roy wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs) > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hitchies > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>Re: Roy (Wood's) >> >>=== >>'a whole

Re: [ql-users] QRAM (was printer probs)

2006-05-04 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hitchies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Re: Roy (Wood's) > >=== >'a whole series about writing a BOOT file for QPAC2 and how to use >that program and get to the useful bits. .' >== > >Thank you Roy. I'll have to work on it **and** subscribe to QL Toad

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Hi Norman, try to use freePDF (google), which is freeware and installs a PDF printer driver under WIN. I use it to print Quill and anything else whith it via QPCprint. Cheers...Ralf R. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Malcolm Cadman wrote: > >> >> I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the >> file size can get quite large. >Not necessarily. I know the defaults do, but (on Acrobat Distiller >anyway) there

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Tony Firshman
Malcolm Cadman wrote: > > I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the > file size can get quite large. Not necessarily. I know the defaults do, but (on Acrobat Distiller anyway) there are plenty of options to reduce the file size. ie image resolutions and compres

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread David Tubbs
> > >I agree with you about PDF, it is a good universal format. Although the >file size can get quite large. Compression factors are variable in pdf. I ca imagine a DIY pdf might be huge, in the way an MS WORD html is, setting font type,size colour each line. Sometime ago I needed to email a W

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would be useful to go "both ways" - like for example convert a QL > Quill_doc in to a M$ Word_doc, and then vice-versa. > Possibly! I think if converted to HTML it can bbe imported into Word anyway, then saved as a Word doc. As I use Open Office, I don't know for

Re: [ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >Greetings Earthlings, Greetings Martian ... :-) ... or is that just Northerner ... ? >I'm playing around with Trolltech's QT4 on WIndows and Linux at the >moment, and I've taken my old 'baby' the Quill Stripper (aka >WinStripper) and I

[ql-users] Quill to PDF convertor ?

2006-05-04 Thread Norman
Greetings Earthlings, I'm playing around with Trolltech's QT4 on WIndows and Linux at the moment, and I've taken my old 'baby' the Quill Stripper (aka WinStripper) and I'm rewriting it using QT - this will, hopefully, let me see how easy it is to use QT, how easy it is to write cross-platform a