[plug] Building a GUI app to generate a wordprocessed letter

Derek Fountain derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Mar 10 18:56:29 WST 2003


> It is possible to write it out straight to postscript, with a bit of
> coding, and print it directly to a printer.  Depends on how good a
> postscript hacker you are, or are willing to become.  Sidestep the
> wordprocessor entirely.  Unless you want it in a wordproc format for later
> editing.

Yes, but I'd like it in the native format if possible so it can be edited or 
personalised a bit. Given that OO uses an XML format, it's probably easier to 
work with than PS!

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"...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE 
...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003



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