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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:03
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On Sep 23, 8:11 am, "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainT...@dog.edu> wrote: > My final aim is to have adobe's pdf to speech not > make unnatural breaks, because of page-breaks which > don't correspond to paragraph-breaks; > which is what I get when I use openOffice for > text to pdf. > > The "hello world" ps-tut doesn't deal with stepping the > y-coordinates down to the next line. > > How should I do this, without getting married to ANOTHER > programming language? > > ==TIA Well, you need to download (or buy) the Adobe books. The Blue Book is a better tutorial than anything else (and free online), and the cookbook section has good ideas to get you started. For the kind of stuff you're describing you certainly will need to "get married" to postscript, as you say. The book for what you're trying to do is the Green Book. It explains how to design the postscript programs that produce documents. But you won't understand it without having done the prep work. While the Red Book (Postscript Language Reference Manual or PLRM) is available online, the third edition is quite overwhelming. I strongly recommend to anyone learning postscript that they buy a first edition manual. It's less than 1 inch thick! It has the stuff you need. The operator summary tells you what page to find the details on. It really is a nice, concise manual. If any of this fires your imagination, I recommend Postscript By Example. I'm too sleepy to praise this book adequately.
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