Importing .ps files into something! (OOo question)
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?
TTFN
Paul
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04-03-2008, 09:22 AM
José Matos
Importing .ps files into something! (OOo question)
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.
Importing .ps files into something! (OOo question)
