[Virtualacorn-list] RiscOS-MS file conversion

[Steve Yandell]

On 6/1/2017 5:39 PM, Bob Ardler wrote:
> Automating via !Keystroke looks good, but (being thick) need Summer hols
> to learn how. Absent apps, tricks too new for old dog reduced choice to
> Draw>TW>Word v Draw>TW>PDF. Draw>TW>Word>e-attach>school worked, but
> Draw>TW>PDF refused to save 'cos "You need to initialise a PostScriptTM
> printer driver by selecting it in !Printers.." -- ignored my yelling
> "Tryanna SAVE not tryanna PRINT, yer clown". Don't have !Printers
> -- just !Printers+, which doesn't have any ref to PostScript. (!GhostScr
> lurks elsewhere & mentions conversion to PDF.)
>
> So it's down to Draw>TW>Word. Despite rebukes from the TW/Icon ML, can't
> find things in the TW/EW manualage, so have created landscape and
> portrait Stationery files with tiny margins which require less or no
> shrinkage of drawfiles when converting to Word.
>
> Remaining puzzle: Attaching thingy/doc to an email automatically swaps
> slash to dot. MS ignoramus, so don't know how to save thingy/doc onto
> a memory stick for school use. Is drag'n'drop from RiscOS OK? But then
> what to do at the other end? (Haven't even reached forDummies level
> with Windows saving.)
>
> Bob
>
Please take a look at http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/software/printpdf/ , 
where the instructions on how to set up seem very clear.

HTH
Steve