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

On 2013-06-03 14:54:59 -0700, 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

Install Ghostscript and run "gv" (ghostview).

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