Importing .ps files into something! (OOo question)

José Matos jamatos at fc.up.pt
Thu Apr 3 09:22:50 UTC 2008


On Thursday 03 April 2008 09:47:14 Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of files that I've managed to rescue from an old machine
> (uses a totally different OS and very old software) by printing the docs to
> a file.
>
> The .ps files work fine, can be printed, converted to pdf and even imported
> into Scribus. I've hit some problems though.
>
> 1. I can't edit them. OpenOffice won't import them, neither will kword or
> gnome-office. Scribus will import them, but will only export as svg or a
> scribus document.
>
> 2. If I convert them to a pdf and then use pdf2html the images come out ok,
> but the text in the html files is completely garbled. It doesn't matter
> which backwards version flag I use, I get rubbish out. The -c(omplex) flag
> also produces nothing. I have all of the ghostscript fonts and bits
> installed.
>
> Is there anything out there that I can import the .ps files into and then
> export as an OpenOffice compatible file which will allow me to edit the
> text?

  Not nice but better than nothing. Use pdftotex to get the text in those 
files. You will loose the format but the text is there.

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/pdftotext
poppler-utils-0.8.0-2.fc9.i386

> TTFN
>
> Paul
>
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