From f30f40683e01a3bf39c96ef0630bb97d4f30e35e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Thomasson Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 21:19:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README for plaintext handling --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2fd6461..99e1890 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ A minority of printers support only PCL and/or their own proprietary formats, th ## Format support -For PDFs or plaintext, your printer needs to support one of the following formats: +For PDFs, your printer needs to support one of the following formats: * PDF * Postscript * PWG-raster @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ For PDFs or plaintext, your printer needs to support one of the following format For Postscript, your printer needs to support Postscript natively. (SeaPrint just sends it as-is) +For Plaintext, SeaPrint can render it to PDF internally and then the requirements follow those of PDF. +You can also send Plaintext to supporting printers and leave the rendering up to the printer (SeaPrint will strip leading and trailing Form Feed characters and ensure CR-NL newlines, but not do any reflow or similar). Since rendering will differ between printers, this has lowest priority for automatic format selection. + For printing "Office" files, like .doc(x) and odt, you need to install `calligraconverter` (from the `calligra` package in Sailfish OS 4.2 onwards). Then the printer support follows that of PDF.