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FlWriter version 1.1 available (Announce)

posted by georgpotthast , Germany, 07.05.2012, 18:20
(edited by georgpotthast on 07.05.2012, 21:26)

> Georg -
>
> V1.1 is looking/working better! However, i'm not able to create PDF files.
> Even with just a few lines of text, the program displays the following
> error message:
>
> The print file could not be created!
>
> I unzipped both the basic and extension packages to their default directory
> on my D: drive, which created D:\FLWRITER\ and the respective subdirs.
>
> Some other feedback (unrelated to above):
>
> o The Esc key is darned EVIL!!! When used to escape from a menu item,
> it terminates FlWriter... back to command line... unexpected... ouch....
>
>
> o Dialog boxes show path separaters as forward slashes (rather than back
> slashes) -- cosmetic... but unix-y, not DOS-ish! (I always find this kind
> of startling/confusing whenever i see it.) But again, *greatly* appreciate
> the conversion to short file names.
>
> o File > Save File removes blank lines between paragraphs. (Because i
> didn't put a space character there?) A little quirky to have to do that.
>
>
> As always, many thanks for all the work....
>
> - Doug B.

Hi Doug,

thank you for your message and testing FlWriter. If you would start FlWriter with redir.exe from the DJGPP package you could redirect error messages to a file and that should give a clue why the PDF conversion does not work. It does work here.
You can also make a postscript file and convert that with the included ps2pdf.bat file after exiting FlWriter from the command line. That could also show the error.

The ESC key is similar in nano-X to CTRL-C in DOS command mode. It will terminate nano-X and restore the text display. Sometimes it can be useful. I will document that in the readme file next time.

I thought I had fixed that blank lines are removed when saving. This has to be fixed. Yes, the workaround is to add a blank here.

Georg

Complete thread:

• FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 13:32 (Announce)
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 15:36
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 16:30
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 17:51
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Wengier, 05.05.2012, 22:40
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 06.05.2012, 20:34
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 07.05.2012, 18:20
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 08.05.2012, 03:48
        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 08.05.2012, 05:44
          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 08.05.2012, 21:45
            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 06:51
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 09.05.2012, 07:53
                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 08:43
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 20:23
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 22:39
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 10.05.2012, 14:21
                      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 10.05.2012, 22:04
                        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 00:22
                          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 11.05.2012, 08:07
                            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 22:27
                              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 00:36
                                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 12.05.2012, 08:40
                                  • GhostScript 7.05 for DOS - Rugxulo, 13.05.2012, 01:44
                                    • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - georgpotthast, 13.05.2012, 10:00
                                      • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 22.05.2012, 01:07
                                        • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - RayeR, 23.05.2012, 00:51
                                          • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 23.05.2012, 05:39
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 10.05.2012, 18:02
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 08:29