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Batch conversion, WriteNow to PDF?
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| I have a few hundred 15 to 20 year old WriteNow 4.0 documents
distributed in locations all over my Panther HD that I'd like to make
more readily accessible by converting to PDF documents.
I can open them individually in Classic mode, print to file, then
distill the file with Acrobat in OS X, but can anyone suggest a batch
way to do this?
(Preferably without my having to learn Unix or use Terminal mode, though
I might be able to cope with the latter if given specific enough
instructions. An AppleScript, maybe? Can AppleScript function for
operations that jump across the Classic_OS X barrier?)
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| Zaphod B 2005-02-27, 8:56 pm |
| AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> I have a few hundred 15 to 20 year old WriteNow 4.0 documents
Ahhh... now _there_ was a real word processor. RIP.
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| Charles Dyer 2005-02-27, 8:56 pm |
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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:35:54 -0500, AES wrote
(in article <siegman-340DE5.09355427022005@news.stanford.edu> ):
> I have a few hundred 15 to 20 year old WriteNow 4.0 documents
> distributed in locations all over my Panther HD that I'd like to make
> more readily accessible by converting to PDF documents.
>
> I can open them individually in Classic mode, print to file, then
> distill the file with Acrobat in OS X, but can anyone suggest a batch
> way to do this?
>
> (Preferably without my having to learn Unix or use Terminal mode, though
> I might be able to cope with the latter if given specific enough
> instructions. An AppleScript, maybe? Can AppleScript function for
> operations that jump across the Classic_OS X barrier?)
It's been a long time since I've used it (I have v11, it's now v15) but
DataViz's MacLink should do what you want. It definitely does batch
processing. The current translation list at
<http://www.dataviz.com/products/mac...lp_xlators.html> says it reads
WriteNow and writes PDF. You might want to have a look.
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| Joe Davison 2005-03-02, 8:56 pm |
| On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, AES wrote:
> I have a few hundred 15 to 20 year old WriteNow 4.0 documents
> distributed in locations all over my Panther HD that I'd like to make
> more readily accessible by converting to PDF documents.
>
> I can open them individually in Classic mode, print to file, then
> distill the file with Acrobat in OS X, but can anyone suggest a batch
> way to do this?
>
> (Preferably without my having to learn Unix or use Terminal mode,
> though I might be able to cope with the latter if given specific
> enough instructions. An AppleScript, maybe? Can AppleScript
> function for operations that jump across the Classic_OS X barrier?)
Don't know how to automate it, but I wonder if saving as RTF might not
be more useful in the long run. Plenty o wordprocessors will read .rtf
files.
WriteNow runs under classic and can "Save As" RTF. Don't know if one
can make a script for it.
rtf to pdf should be easily scripted using TextEdit, I'd guess.
joe
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