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 > > -- > Get your free @ukpost.com account now > http://www.ukpost.com/ -- José Abílio -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
