Re: death to word

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> I miss very much the fully
> scaleable  type setting commands in Xy.  
The SZznn mode still works as before
> And I've forgotten how to turn a
> XY4 file into a .pdf.
One way is to use PDFCreator. It's freeware.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/files/latest/download; eudora="autourl">http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/files/latest/download
I have done that (requires setting something like LPT4 to a Postscript or
Ghostscript .prn file in Settings.dfl) had difficulties this
time.
Easier is to use Adobe's online conversion facility. It's free for 4
times (I think).
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/membership/index.cfm?nf=1&nl=1; eudora="autourl">https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/membership/index.cfm?nf=1&nl=1
To use this, you need an .rtf version of your file. To get this, either
open the file in NB and Save As rtf or on in Xy4 on the command line
execute:
func SH
That should show the a la Carte help file menu across the top. Make sure
"File" is highlighted and cursor down to give a file name and
make the type one of the Microsoft rich text format type, and give it an
extension in the extension field of .rtf -- that is the file you will
send up to Adobe online for coversion.
The resulting PDF doesn't look great onscreen, but it prints fine from
Adobe reader. (if it tries to print to a .prn file, you have to uncheck
somewhere, I forget where, "print to file."). I just found that
in Adobe reader, you can make it look good onscreen by right clicking the
document, choosing Page Display Preferences, and setting it to Use System
Settings.
Could be easier, but there it is.