[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Remove font attributes from subtitles

Ergzay ergzay at everyoneproductions.com
Thu Sep 22 18:55:14 CEST 2005


On 2005/09/22, at 10:36, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:48:26AM -0400, Ergzay wrote:
>> On 2005/09/22, at 3:50, Rich Felker wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:27:40AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:09:44PM -0400, Ergzay wrote:
>>>>> Sorry for the double reply but I just saw the mail someone else 
>>>>> sent
>>>>> regarding SSA subtitle file and am attaching the documents 
>>>>> describing
>>>>> ASS and SSA.
>>>>
>>>> You haven't seriously sent a Word document to this list, have you?
>>>
>>> I'm not so concerned that he sent it, more concerned that our spam
>>> filters did not send it to /dev/null...
>>>
>>> For future reference: please convert word documents to something
>>> properly readable. Since it's not intended to be edited, pdf would be
>>> perfect. HTML would probably work too (except html mail is banned
>>> iirc).
>>
>> 2. most programs I've seen won't support .doc completely
>> and certain things always seem to get dropped and I don't want to lose
>> something that is in the file without knowing it.
>
> That's why I said use PDF. Use MS word + acrobat to generate it (or MS
> word, a postscript printer driver, and ghostscript's ps2pdf).

I don't have MS word (I also hate microsoft). Open office doesn't quite 
support it all the way I think. Anyone got a suggestion of mac 
compatible programs to use to convert a .doc to .pdf or whatever?




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