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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Monday 12 June 2006 19:22, JimD wrote: |
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>> I have an MS Word "HTML" file. I used Lynx to dump it to text and |
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>> now I want to get it to pdf. I opened it in OOo and saved as an |
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>> OpenDocument. However, all the paragraphs are hard wrapped at 80 |
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>> characters so the text does not take up the whole page. |
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>> Is there an easy way to go through the 100+ pages and just join the |
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>> lines of each paragraph so that they will be flowed correctly in |
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>> OOo? |
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>> I have the dumped text file and the OOo file and both have the |
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>> paragraphs hard wrapped at column 80. I would think there would |
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>> have to be some simple tool out there to go through the plain text |
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>> file and just join all the lines of a paragraph, no? |
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> You already have a OOo file so that's a good place to start. |
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> First, check on Tools -> Autocorrect -> Options that "Remove blank |
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> paragraphs" is checked. Then highlight all the text you want to |
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> modify and do Format -> AutoFormat -> Apply. |
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> This should remove hard line returns in the middle of paras then |
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> remove blank paras. Then print to pdf. |
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Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-) |
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Jim |
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