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- From: jdlail@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jack D Lail)
- Subject: Re: XYWrite->AnythingElse
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:11:34 GMT
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- Jason Pascucci (jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain) wrote:
- : Are there any programs which will transform XYWrite documents
- : to something a little more portable? (XYWrite2PostScript would
- : be most perferable.:)
- :
- : I don't have XYWrite, and the $445 pricetag in ComputerShopper
- : for XYWrite3.0 is insane for what it appears to do. I'm
- : getting some documents in either Ascii or XYWrite format,
- : and I'd prefer to keep any pleasant formatting
- : that has been worked on, but I'll just take the ASCII
- : if it's too much of a pain.
- :
- XyWrite files are pretty close to pure ASCII except for the formating
- commands. How difficult it would be to convert depends on how mcuh
- formatting is in the files. Simple stuff could be easily handed with a
- search and replace function in most any WP. That would be cumbersome with
- a lot of formatting. If the person is sending you XyWrite files, tell them
- to use the ASCII printer file. It will set margins and put in running
- headers and footers and be all ASCII. Maybe that helps.
- I use XyWrite and its updated version, Signature. Signature has
- the ability to save and import a number of formats with some built in
- stuff from Word for Word.
- -- jack
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