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Article #6694Re: How2 wrap 8 text-lines in *.ps?
From: RedGrittyBrick
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:46
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:46
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On 23/09/2011 14:11, NoHtmlMailsPlease 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. There is almost certainly no existing program that creates PDF files suitably optimised for a specific PDF-to-speech application. > The "hello world" ps-tut Perhaps you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#.22Hello_world.22 or something very like it. > 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? You can't do this in Postscript without learning the Postscript programming language to an elementary level of competence. You could try http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~zben/PostScript/asciiprint.html but I've no idea whether it produces PS from which GS can produce PDF from which your PDF-to-speech application can produce intelligible speech. If your goal is to convert some existing text to something that is very well suited to a text-to-speech application, I believe it would be best to avoid PS or PDF as initial or intermediate formats. I would evaluate using either plain-text or one of the more common book-reader formats (e.g. mobi). I believe some models of Kindle can read books aloud, perhaps their PC "kindle" software also can. -- RGB
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