Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

[Michael Parson]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, address@hidden wrote:
> On 11-Aug-2012 22:33:21 Larry Kollar wrote:
> > Clarke Echols <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a potential client who needs copy in DOC/Word format, and I'm
> > > on Linux. ...
> > >
> > > Last time I tried anything of the sort, I produced a doc file from
> > > OpenOffice Writer, but when I read it using Word on a PC, the tables
> > > were mangled beyond anything remotely useful.
> >
> > How long ago was that? OpenOffice has improved over the last couple years. In
> > any case, using RTF instead of DOC format to move from OOo to Weird is going
> > to be the least problematic.
> >
> > -- Larry
>
> I have just tried the groff-->PS-->PDF-->OpenOffice route.
>
> The file in question is a mixture of text and tables, a PDF file
> generated using ps2pdf from PS output produced by groff.
>
> The version of OpenOffice is 3.2.1 apparently dating from 2010.
>
> When given the PDF file to open, OO Writer took a while, and then
> came up with a screen that looked like a good representation of
> the document.

You had better luck than I did.  I just tried to open my resume, same
path to PDF, using OpenOffice Writer 3.4.1, which is relativly current.

It looks like it tried to read the file as a text file and I just got:

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stream
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·êÞªâ'f.6³è§ÿ...W.!ÛÉ.Åþ.»Å§.­#°þWZ²×#,.è.ÍíBï³.ã#fä² 
#ئ\\#gyz.ð.],mÏ.c'4.F.jùïÍ»Ed##¾b+Ûa.la#v²Í«#¶¹Znþ³Xù8Ȳ¢ñ±o;+ßqVa#9´àÕeÜ#ÇÒÀ..tm.uÒ,c3.|×7`ïïÛÂ#ÍÒ

Instead of 3 pages of my more recent work history.

--
Michael Parson
Unix Thug
Austin, TX
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