Am 27.10.2011 19:08, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> [11-10-27 18:36]: >> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> By the way: >>> >>> There is an old CPM 2.2 manual available. Unfortunately in >>> AMIPRO-format. >>> >>> I tried to load it with libreoffice from the commandline >>> with no success. >>> >>> What can I do to load and convert this manual to a "normal" >>> format? >> >> I don't think anything can read it natively in Linux. IBM/Lotus has a >> free Windows viewer program called KeyView. Maybe it works under Wine >> or surely in a Windows virtual machine. >> > > Hmmm...may be the other way round: I found CPM 2.2 manuals in > Postscript format also and want to convert them to ASCII. > Since there are a lot of tables in the manual, I want the conversion > to respect white space even at the beginning of a line. > > I tried pstotext, but either it cannot handle this case or I did > something wrong: Only the linebreaks were respected (and the text > itsself of course ;). > > What else can perform a "perfect" conversion from postscript to ascii > else? > > Thank you very much in advance for any ....hrrrrmmm.... conversion ;) > > Best regards, > mcc > >
Try `pstoedit -f text input.ps output.txt` From media-gfx/pstoedit Hope this helps, Florian Philipp
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