How to render "Michpal" files (*.mxd) in debian ?

[Boris shtrasman]

You are correct , it didn't work but at least I have a better starting
point.
iconv failes to parse the text using the provided encodings :

@WN at V9.00.0062
@J,�iconv: illegal input sequence at position 22

the first few lines I get are (hd) so I'm not sure it is the dos encoding :

00000000  40 57 4e 40 56 39 2e 30  30 2e 30 30 36 32 0a 40  |@WN at V9.00.0062.
@|
00000010  01 4a 2c 00 00 aa c0 ff  ff 40 02 01 00 00 00 32
|.J,...... at .....2|
00000020  19 00 00 40 06 01 00 00  00 01 40 05 06 01 00 00
|... at ......@.....|
00000030  00 05 01 aa 00 00 00 8c  0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 54
|...............T|
00000040  69 6d 65 73 20 4e 65 77  20 52 6f 6d 61 6e 00 00  |imes New
Roman..|
00000050  02 00 00 02 da 2a 00 00  c9 de ff ff a0 2b 00 00
|.....*.......+..|
00000060  80 d1 ff ff 00 ee f2 f8  eb fa 20 ee e9 eb f4 ec  |..........
.....|
00000070  20 32 30 30 30 20 ec e7  e9 f9 e5 e1 20 f9 eb f8  | 2000 ......
...|
00000080  2c 20 e8 ec 27 20 30 33  2d 35 36 31 39 34 37 35  |, ..'
03-5619475|

But I'm still searching for a workaround

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:53, Aviram Jenik <aviram at jenik.com> wrote:

> With a lot of help and assistance from Herouth Maoz, I got this script
> to generate printable .ps files from the michpal files that show
> multiple paystubs:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> iconv -f CSPC862LATINHEBREW -t iso-8859-8 $1 | sed
> "s/\x1B\x31\x30\x0D/\x0C/g" | a2ps --lines-per-page=55 --columns=1
> --no-header --landscape -o $2
>
>
> The key is 'iconv', and you may have to play with the encoding.
>
> I'll be shocked if this will actually work for you 'out of the box'
> since they seem to change format between versions. But it should give
> you a good start.
>
> I wish I had my email thread with Herouth handy - she gave me the exact
> steps how to find out the encoding and transform it to something sensible.
>
> Good luck!
>
> - Aviram
>
>
> On 07/14/2011 05:40 PM, Boris shtrasman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to render and print "Michpal" paychecks (תלושי שכר),I've tried
> > using wine + michpal but it just crashed (the michpal soft).
> >
> > How can I render and print the data so it could be counted as a paycheck
> ?
> >
> > p.s.
> >
> > I figured out part of the file format (but I can't find what each
> > letter represents) using
> > http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/10-2004/12057.html but
> > the data does not look valid (i.e incorrect field names , can't figure
> > out what are the sick days etc).
> >
> > I've got that the font should be Times New Roman.
> >
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