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| A cut and paste involves two softwares : JSesh and your word processor (Word, Openoffice, etc.) | A cut and paste involves two softwares : JSesh and your word processor (Word, Openoffice, etc.) | ||
| Now, JSesh will propose a number of different *formats* to your word processor, letting it pick the one it likes the most. To control what will be proposed by JSesh, you can use the Format Choice dialog (in the preferences). | Now, JSesh will propose a number of different *formats* to your word processor, letting it pick the one it likes the most. To control what will be proposed by JSesh, you can use the Format Choice dialog (in the preferences). | ||
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| + | I do most of my testing with **open office** and **libre office**. They are not perfect, but they tend to process pictures and unicode correctly, so I strongly encourage their use. Their files tend to be very portable from one computer to the other. No problem of different versions of the word processor there. | ||
| {{ http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/files_jsesh/images/formatChoice.img_assist_custom.png |Format choice dialog}} | {{ http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/files_jsesh/images/formatChoice.img_assist_custom.png |Format choice dialog}} | ||
| - | * RTF : probably the most versatile choice for now. Works (almost) everywhere and give reasonable results, especially for hieroglyphs mixed with alphabetic text. Don't use for recent versions of Word for Mac((Recent versions of Word for Mac seems to understand only PDF and not the pictures I use for RTF (although they are Microsoft format)). | + | * RTF : probably the most versatile choice for now. Works (almost) everywhere and give reasonable results, especially for hieroglyphs mixed with alphabetic text. Don't use for recent versions of Word for Mac((Recent versions of Word for Mac seems to understand only PDF and not the pictures I use for RTF (although they are Microsoft format))). |
| * PDF : currently the most acurate choice. As far as I know, only Mac OS X supports PDF cut and paste, and few softwares understand it. For instance, Word 2004 doesn't. Word 2008 does, however. Textedit has the bad idea of accepting the PDF cut and paste, but transforming the result into a bitmap. | * PDF : currently the most acurate choice. As far as I know, only Mac OS X supports PDF cut and paste, and few softwares understand it. For instance, Word 2004 doesn't. Word 2008 does, however. Textedit has the bad idea of accepting the PDF cut and paste, but transforming the result into a bitmap. | ||
| * bitmap : gives a (currently) low resolution bitmap, suitable for web pages for instance. | * bitmap : gives a (currently) low resolution bitmap, suitable for web pages for instance. | ||
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| For information specific to **your** word processor, see the chapter on [[word_processor_issues|word processor issues]] | For information specific to **your** word processor, see the chapter on [[word_processor_issues|word processor issues]] | ||
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| ===== Fine settings ===== | ===== Fine settings ===== | ||
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