I started messing around with supporting more file formats, but it’s not so easy.
For doc(x), odt etc, calligrawords has a command line option to convert to pdf that i could probably lean on. Supposedly there is also the more generic calligraconverter, but even the version that ships with my Linux distro segfaults no matter what i throw at it. The same goes for calligraconverter on SFOS. It was fairly easy to add that to the sailfish-office build, but adding calligra-words seems not so easy.
Then there is plaintext; how hard can it be?
Very, apparently.
My one printer that supports it definitely wants \r\n newlines, so i’ll need to re-linebreak files that i send over. Not too terrible, but using any sort of readily available readline functionality, it seems i will lose track of any \f characters.The horror!
And since plaintext support seems quite rare, i’d like to render my own in PWG/URF raster images.
I don’t think i want it more fancy than the standard 72*60 monospace characters per page, but still. For example; should there be any reflow at all? And in that case, keeping track of the number of lines or page fitment gets quite hard.
…and the same thing about \f goes for this too.
Or i could lean on some existing tool to go via PDF, but there doesn’t appear to be a standard tool for this, just oddball stuff.
Surely there must be a better way, especially with all the fancy Qt stuff available…
If anyone wants to pitch in, or just help me think, please get in touch!