Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing a postscript file with proper formatting

Ghostscript runs on pretty well all flavours of Linux. It can usually 
convert a postscript file to raster (png). I think it is the back end to 
PS2PDF so results may not be too much better.
Steve

On 2013-06-04 20:50, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think this was meant to go to the list.
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>
> GhostScript sounds like a Windows app.  It might be worth trying though.
>
> Regards from
>
> Tom :)
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> > ________________________________
> > From: Fernand Vanrie <sos@pmgroup.be>
> > To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
> > Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 7:49
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing a postscript file with proper formatting
> >
> >
> > PostScript = deadlock, if you have some PS files , then tranfer them to
> > PDF (via Gostscript) and then you are back in business
> >
> >
> > On 4/06/2013 7:58, Tom Davies wrote:
> >
> > > Hi :)
> > > Is there a feature-request/bug-report about this format?  It might be worth posting one if there 
> > > isn't.
> > >
> > > It's a proprietary format so you are probably stuck with trying to find an appropriate version of 
> > > the program that can open them well and then explore different output formats.  Wrong versions of 
> > > the same program probably also mess the formatting up.
> > > Regards from
> > > Tom :)
> > >
> > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>
> > > > To: MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 3:53
> > > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing a postscript file with proper formatting
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 2013-06-04 09:54, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > > > > Is there any way to do this into Writer?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a number of files I originally created with FrameMaker (back
> > > > > when I still used Windows), and I could never get it to create the
> > > > > proper PDF output files, but I was able to create PS files from them.
> > > > >
> > > > > Now I'd like to put them into ODT format so I can edit, or even just
> > > > > view, them again in Writer.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've tried using ps2pdf, but that doesn't format the file properly and
> > > > > the output looks like crap.  One problem seems to be that the PS file
> > > > > was created with a dual column format, and that seems to throw ps2pdf
> > > > > way off (which is odd since it displays perfectly in the document
> > > > > viewer, but that refuses to print the file to a PDF).
> > > > >
> > > > > For that matter, does LO support importing FrameMaker files?  that
> > > > > would be even better - I think.  I tried it but all I got was 500
> > > > > pages of junk (the file is 24 pages long).
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > At this point I'm looking at printing them all out, scanning them back
> > > > > in and using the scanned PDFs, but that seems wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > > MR
> > > > Hi. We had a cad systen that output PS. I used to import that into
> > > > Inkscape or Karbon and then create the PDF or an EPS if I was inserting
> > > > a diagram into a document.
> > > > Draw opens PDF reasonably well.
> > > > Steve
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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