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Again please add a link in download section, to this thread.

 

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This forum (Au3 Technical) is inhabited by luminaries whose posts frequently demonstrate understanding far beyond my capabilities.  For that reason, and at Jon's suggestion, I am reaching out to tap i

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Seems written in a gentle yet persuasive manner.  Good read so far!  Have noticed a few minor typos: Page 6: 1) "We will start of by studying core concepts and will demonstrate them in actual programs

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If the question is whether you can add your own custom shortcut to do a "Copy as RTF" then the answer is yes: Just add it to the "user.shortcuts" config parameter. Example: user.shortcuts=\ Ctrl

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You can use PDFtk or other tools to embed any files  even au3 files into PDF

Edit: of course you can use my UDF for Debenu Quick PDF Library but for this you will need license key for Evaluation or commercial license.

 

 

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Thanks.

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@Jfish, first of all, thank you for putting in all the effort into this, it is really great! Most people would charge for something like this but you are providing it for free, truly in the spirit of Autoit :). Great job, well done!

I do have one suggestion only at this stage and it's that it would be nice if any code sections or variables etc would stand out better from the regular text in the PDF. E.g. using a console style font with a grey/other color highlight background for any code would be great.

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I use Source Code Pro in SciTE, which is a clear font in my humble opinion. Some people use Office Code Pro though.

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  On 8/3/2015 at 9:28 AM, JohnOne said:

Can't PDF parse html?

@JohnOne - not sure I follow.  What HTML are you referring to?  The source text is coming from Word and SciTE.

@guinness - I will look for those fonts.  Thanks for the suggestion.  It would be tough to redo all the images .... but maybe for the Word parts ...

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  On 8/3/2015 at 12:01 PM, JohnOne said:

I mean, scite4AutoIt has ability to export code as HTML, if pdf supports html then you can put that in.

In response to make code sections stand out.

It should be possible since @Jfish created this with word and exported to PDF.

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This is a helpful discussion.  It may be a good idea to lay out all the different types of code that appear in the text.  There are three parts that could contain code:

1. Images in the text - this should not be an issue because they are screen captures of SciTE.  The already look like code

2. Code just typed in the text as we walk through examples.  There is not a ton of this but it did not come from SciTE so the options would be: (a) to redo them in SciTE and screen capture them, (b) use a font like the one guinnness suggested in Word, (c) shade them / highlight them with native Word, or (d) Other?

3. Code in the appendix.  There are dozens of individual examples in various directories (organized by chapter).  For those, I wrote a script to walk the directories and pull them into the simple text format you see in the appendix.  I could try to get fancy and automate screen capture but it would probably not be cropped.

Any thoughts on the refined use cases?

 

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mLipok Universalist

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Thx for new version.

Some proposals:


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In appendix on page #155 you have screenshot :
I want to ask if this form "screenshot" instead of the code is intentional ?

 

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"It was auto-generated to a text file using the following script"

Can you try to use SciTE

  • in menu: FILE > Export > As RTF.
  • now open RTF file in WordPad copy entire text, and paste it to your Word document.

 

 

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I want to ask if this form "screenshot" instead of the code is intentional ?

I assume you are asking if I chose between the screenshot and the method you are suggesting below?  If so, no, I was not aware of that - but will explore it per your recommendation.

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Can you try to use SciTE

  • in menu: FILE > Export > As RTF.
  • now open RTF file in WordPad copy entire text, and paste it to your Word document.

Yes!  I will try that.  I tried it, that is a cool trick indeed!  Thanks for the tip.  I like that a lot.  That may solve my issues in other areas as well.:thumbsup:

I am also playing around with source code fonts per some earlier suggestions from the main thread where this was posted.

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I have been looking for a bot to do a task and haven't found much help. The few responses I have gotten have bee negative.  It looks like I might have to learn enough language and code to just make it myself. Can you guys recommend where to start? Which language? Which software? Will this guide help? 

I want to automate replying to a post I made every 30 seconds on a forum to push my referral link to the top of the thread. It is accessed through Tor browser and required a 5 letter captcha per post.

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You are about to get a couple more negative ones, and will receive no assistance in those endeavors.

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  On 9/5/2015 at 12:28 AM, Ms_robot said:

I have been looking for a bot to do a task and haven't found much help. The few responses I have gotten have bee negative.  It looks like I might have to learn enough language and code to just make it myself. Can you guys recommend where to start? Which language? Which software? Will this guide help? 

I want to automate replying to a post I made every 30 seconds on a forum to push my referral link to the top of the thread. It is accessed through Tor browser and required a 5 letter captcha per post.

Start by reading the forum rules and NOT posting in unrelated topics. Your post also implies you have posted in our forums before but cant be with this membername. So better read those rules and stop posting in this thréad.

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@Jfish Any progress ?

@Jon Can you add this book to list on this page ?

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@mLipok - thanks for checking in.  I have been all out traveling for work recently.  I plan to use the technique you suggested to create better fonts in the text when not using a screen shot.  That should be my next iteration.  I assume that is the thrust of what you want to see in the next version?  Again, thanks for the question and please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any suggestions.

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Good news.
You can be sure I'll keep an eye on this project.

Thanks.
 

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