
#PROGRAM FOR .PUZ MAC SOFTWARE#
puz format in the event you want to save it for later on your Mac or open it with one of the mobile versions of AcrossLite. hello are there any free tools or software for creating your own word lists/dictionary files I dont have either Crossword Compiler or Crossfire. The puzzle should open just fine, at which point you'll be able to print it and/or save it as a binary. Right/Context click on the file and select "open with", and then select "Across Lite" as the program. If the publication was packed to more than one disk, packed01.puz will be split across multiple disks.

A compressed file named packed01.puz, which contains the publication and may contain embedded fonts and linked graphics. Make sure to copy all the text (and nothing else, including blank lines) and paste it into a. Unpack.exe, a program you use to unpack compressed files. I try to backfill for him occasionally when the LAT feed is down and he's out too.īJMcBean, give this process another try as it does indeed work on a Mac. I've posted a few of the text files and can attest to the labor of love that Glen9999 performs in making the input ready for text. txt file and that file is opened, AcrossLite can then print the puzzle and save it in the binary format.
#PROGRAM FOR .PUZ MAC HOW TO#
(I'm thinking a "switch" has to be thrown on Sundays for it to keep working, along with some rigging at the end of the month.) I've copied puzzle text enough here that I'd like to figure out how to automate it, but don't quite know everything I need to know to find the data URL to download that drives the online solvers.Ĭopying and pasting of the text Glen9999 posts is actually a full work-around in the sense that it provides the same end result as downloading the binary. The very periodic "outages" makes me wonder how the process here works behind getting them. Anyhow, what's going on isn't quite ideal, but it's an option. I don't really know for sure how that works. I don't know the conditions that they get to be distributed here, but I have to think there's some kind of permission involved and maybe even some money changing hands in some way. But the problem (posting them to forum is kinda sorta sketchy) is the LA Times seeing whoever as an "unauthorized distributor" or something like that. To open a puzzle you have saved on your computer, drag and drop the file onto the Across Lite program icon.
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Like you pointed out, it'd just be saving to PUZ out of Across Lite and uploading the file as opposed to posting the text file here. There, you can choose either Todays Puzzle, or Recent Puzzles. There's the possibility of offering links to PUZ from cloud storage. Now select another program and check the box 'Always use this app to open. , right-click on any PUZ file and then click 'Open with' > 'Choose another app'. We talked about posting PUZ a few months ago, but the problem there is dealing with binary files on a forum that doesn't support attachment. Associate the PUZ file extension with the correct application.

Actually it's Across Lite TEXT which is a script language more for constructors to get their creations into PUZ easily.
