Re: Printing Abiword file outside Abiword produces all xml formatting information

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 19:27:55 GMT

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    On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:30, John Mellor wrote:
    > I think there is a technical expression for this but I hope I can make
    > myself clear. I put a Gnome Printer Applet in my panel so I can print
    > files by dragging them straight from the file manager (Nautilus) and
    > dropping them onto the applet. Very convenient I thought for a quick
    > copy without opening Abiword. However, the output is a verbatim copy of
    > all the formatting info. The same happens if I print from the X-printer
    > utility. I presume both these think the file is plain text. Both use lpr
    > as the command, but I cannot find any argument that might resolve this.
    > Can anyone help please?

    AbiWord files are just plain text, as all XML files are. Drag a HTML
    file to your printer and you'll get just the HTML tags and not the
    pretty display that netscape will show you on screen. You can run
    abiword --print=file.ps or abiword --print=|lpr to print to a file or to
    a printer.

    Dom





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