Exporting propeller source code, into a word .DOC report, with colour and forma

m.r.b.

I would be grateful for some suggestions please.. A little background...

I've been·helping a long-time friend, who·is undertaking·a mature/adult access uni. course, with his final project.
{{having given significant amounts of my time for free, "for·a·few·beers", as a favour!}}

I have developed the embedded part of the project, which forms a small fraction of the overall finished project.

I am providing .DOC documentation for 'software/embedded stuff',·which includes·an appendix section, containing the source code listings.

This documentation will be·cut-and-pasted into the projects' overall·final report at the appropriate section.


I would like to export·the source code from "Propeller tool" into open-office or word, with the following left intact...
* The font colour
* If possible,·the background colour
* The text formatting (indentation etc)
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I was thinking as an·.RTF or similar file, using the "Parallax" font, for viewing compatability.
I have tried everything from (non exhaustive) from the sublime to the rediculous IE...

*·'copy and paste', with reformating/colouring by hand (not convenient due to combined sourcecode page count,·lots of·pages even @·8pt font)
* 'Screen-dumps, and importing the resulting image files into word'
* 'Printing to / then Ripping from PDF back to .RTF/.DOC'
* Through to printing the source code within propeller tool using exotic 'Virtual .RTF/.DOC printer drivers'

Everything I have tried so-far yields poor results.· I am pulling my hair out!
·
How do I...
"Get·sourcecode as·it appears within "Propeller tool" to appear into a·.DOC document, with formatting and colour retained?"


Regards, M.R.B.

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

I've used tool: www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/SnippyDownload.htm

If you hold the shift key down, you get a nice square screen capture cut.

OBC

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CassLan

m.r.b.,

I Just printed to Adobe Acrobat..came out great, everything intact.
Copying/Pasting that data into a word doc provided everything intact except the background coloring. I've been using word for a number of years and I don't think I've ever seen the background different colors across an area that wasn't filled with text.
Your best bet is a screen cap like OBC said or submitting a PDF.

Rick

SRLM

@OBC

Hey, that's cool! I've been looking around for a good sub-screenshot tool. I've tried MS Office OneNote, but it only seems to work on one of my computers. Thanks for the link. I especially like how you don't need to install anything. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

potatohead

I just found a nice path.

Print to PDF, with your favorite PDF tool. I use PDF Creator.

Download Inkscape.

Open PDF with Inkscape. You choose your page to open, as this is a graphics program.

At this point, you will have one page of your PDF, in the tool, where you can add markups, if you want to.

Save as enhanced meta file. (*.emf)

Drag and drop that file into word, for a resizable vector image of your source code + markups.

[noparse][[/noparse]sample .emf file and .doc file attached]

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m.r.b.

@potatohead,

Thanks...
The route via PDF then metafile does what I was after!