8:06 a.m.
Has anyone found a file converter that will work with Netsurf?
I am looking for docx to pdf.
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4:16 p.m.
On 30 Jan 2022 as I do recall,
Richard Torrens (lists) wrote:
Has anyone found a file converter that will work with Netsurf?
I am looking for docx to pdf.
I have this one bookmarked for XLSX to XLS, and it also seems to offer
'Word to PDF'.
https://convertstandard.com/word2pdf.aspx
Tested, and it works - with the proviso that the first time I tried to
open the resulting PDF I was asked for a (non-existing) password, but it
worked on the second attempt.
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6:02 p.m.
On 30 Jan 2022 Harriet Bazley wrote:
I have this one bookmarked for XLSX to XLS, and it also seems to
offer
'Word to PDF'.
Tested, and it works - with the proviso that the first time I tried
to
open the resulting PDF I was asked for a (non-existing) password, but it
worked on the second attempt.
I tried this on two files. The first produced an XML file. I changed the
file type to MSexcel and !ViewXLS just produced a large grid with no
content. The other file produced no output at all.
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5:38 a.m.
On 30 Jan 2022 Richard Porter wrote:
On 30 Jan 2022 Harriet Bazley wrote:
> I have this one bookmarked for XLSX to XLS, and it also seems to
offer
> 'Word to PDF'.
> Tested, and it works - with the proviso that the first time I
tried to
> open the resulting PDF I was asked for a (non-existing) password, but it
> worked on the second attempt.
I tried this on two files. The first produced an XML file. I changed
the
file type to MSexcel and !ViewXLS just produced a large grid with no
content. The other file produced no output at all.
I tried again but with the same result - first time a blank grid, then
after that no output, just a blink. I then tried XLSX to PDF and that was
fine.
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Richard Porter
12:35 p.m.
On 30 Jan 2022 as I do recall,
Richard Porter wrote:
On 30 Jan 2022 Harriet Bazley wrote:
> I have this one bookmarked for XLSX to XLS, and it also seems to offer
> 'Word to PDF'.
> https://convertstandard.com/word2pdf.aspx
> Tested, and it works - with the proviso that the first time I tried to
> open the resulting PDF I was asked for a (non-existing) password, but it
> worked on the second attempt.
I tried this on two files. The first produced an XML file. I changed the
file type to MSexcel and !ViewXLS just produced a large grid with no
content. The other file produced no output at all.
I haven't used it for a while, but I just tried it on a file from the
Office of National Statistics and so far as I can tell, it worked -
however, the resulting file was so huge (30 pages in !ViewXLS) that
Fireworkz ran out of memory before managing to convert and generate all
30 Excel sheets, while !ViewXLS only displays the text labels and not
the formula results.
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3:30 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:35:46PM +0000, Harriet Bazley wrote:
I haven't used it for a while, but I just tried it on a file from
the
Office of National Statistics and so far as I can tell, it worked -
however, the resulting file was so huge (30 pages in !ViewXLS) that
Fireworkz ran out of memory before managing to convert and generate all
30 Excel sheets, while !ViewXLS only displays the text labels and not
the formula results.
A reminder to all: This mailing list is about NetSurf, and is not a
general RISC OS support group, and that my advice for opening docx files
and similar is to buy a computer that can run LibreOffice.
B.
4:40 a.m.
On 1 Feb 2022 Rob Kendrick wrote:
A reminder to all: This mailing list is about NetSurf, and is not a
general RISC OS support group, and that my advice for opening docx files
and similar is to buy a computer that can run LibreOffice.
I thought this thread was specifically to do with online converters that
will run on NetSurf, which has more to do with the limitations of NetSurf
than the converters themselves.
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Richard Porter
3:54 a.m.
In article <3a8615b359.harriet(a)bazleyfamily.co.uk>,
Harriet Bazley <lists(a)bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
On 30 Jan 2022 as I do recall,
Richard Torrens (lists) wrote:
> Has anyone found a file converter that will work with Netsurf?
>
> I am looking for docx to pdf.
>
I have this one bookmarked for XLSX to XLS, and it also seems to offer
'Word to PDF'.
Tested, and it works - with the proviso that the first time I tried
to
open the resulting PDF I was asked for a (non-existing) password, but it
worked on the second attempt.
Thanks Harriet. I tried 15 other converters before asking - this one did
not turn up on a duckduckgo search before I gave up.
The page doesn't display well in Netsurf but the "Drop file here" box is
evident. It was a large (9MB) file and nothing appeared to happen. I had
nearly given up when Netsurf's download window appeared. Now down to 3656KB.
The download wes filetyped XML but has a /pdf name. But re-typing to pdf it
worked properly.
So yes, it works fine.
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
8:49 a.m.
On 31 Jan 2022 Chris Newman wrote:
In article <59b2e89e73Lists(a)Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (lists) <Lists(a)Torrens.org> wrote:
> Has anyone found a file converter that will work with Netsurf?
> I am looking for docx to pdf.
Techwriter will do that on a RISC OS machine.
I was going to suggest TW/EW but they don't keep the format particularly
if you have text flowed around images, and it doesn't do automatic
numbering of paragraphs, sections, chapters etc.
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Richard Porter
10:28 a.m.
In article <59b36aac3ccvjazz(a)waitrose.com>,
Chris Newman <cvjazz(a)waitrose.com> wrote:
In article <59b2e89e73Lists(a)Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (lists) <Lists(a)Torrens.org> wrote:
> Has anyone found a file converter that will work with Netsurf?
> I am looking for docx to pdf.
Techwriter will do that on a RISC OS machine.
The requsest was for something that worked with Netsurf!
Many years ago I bought Techwriter Professional. Didn't like the program
so stopped using it.
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Richard Torrens.
http://www.Torrens.org for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats
and more!
11:02 a.m.
In article <59b3796fc6Lists(a)Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (lists) <Lists(a)Torrens.org> wrote:
In article <59b36aac3ccvjazz(a)waitrose.com>,
Chris Newman <cvjazz(a)waitrose.com> wrote:
> In article <59b2e89e73Lists(a)Torrens.org>,
> Richard Torrens (lists) <Lists(a)Torrens.org> wrote:
> > Has anyone found a file converter that will work with Netsurf?
> > I am looking for docx to pdf.
> Techwriter will do that on a RISC OS machine.
The requsest was for something that worked with Netsurf!
Many years ago I bought Techwriter Professional. Didn't like the
program
so stopped using it.
I'm a horses for courses kind of guy...
Why don't you go to MS-Windows where DocX files are native creatures,
it'll save a lot of faffing about.
I still use RISC OS for lot of things, but there are areas of endeavour
where RISC OS is a waste of time; So I gave up wasting my time years ago
and went Win side for those particular things.
Dave
Years ago... Had I not been able to apply the Horses for courses with
regard to some of the things I do, I would have completely dumped RISC OS.
:-(
D.
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