[Virtualacorn-list] RiscOS-MS file conversion

[Jim Nagel]

I think Jeremy is right that PDF is probably the way to go, especially 
if you don't intend people on the Windows side to edit the worksheets.
PDF, after all, is *portable* document format.

For your Techwriter files, you can just load them into Techwriter and 
export directly as PDF -- it has its own PDF export facility. (Which 
still requires that you have !Printers running.)

For drawfiles, load them into Draw and print via Steve Fryatt's 
PrintPDF, as Jeremy said.  Alternatively, drop drawfile into Artworks 
and use its built-in PDF export facility.

I use Keystroke quite a lot, but haven't ever tried to make it do the 
above actions as a repetitive chore.  A vaguely similar example in the 
Keystroke manual talks about generating a textfile list of the files 
you want to act on, and then defining a complicated-sounding Keystroke 
setup that sounds to me to invite frustration.

But having made such a textfile listing your files, it might be more 
straightforward to make a Basic program that would invoke commandline 
stuff to load and print-pdf each file, recursing through your list. 
However, do such star-commands exist?


Another approach altogether:  If the school wants all this work done, 
give the job to some computer adepts among the students.  Let them get 
to know RiscOS!

-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk