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

[Larry Kollar]

On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Michael Parson <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>> How long ago was that? OpenOffice has improved over the last couple years.
>> 
>> I have just tried the groff-->PS-->PDF-->OpenOffice route.
>> 
>> 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:
> 
> %PDF-1.4
> %Çì.¢
> 5 0 obj
> <</Length 6 0 R/Filter /FlateDecode>>
> stream
> x..XËvܸ#Ý÷W`.agÔ4ß.¬"Ë.X>.¥Q·cåHY°I¨Å.$h.Ôc¶Þ:ÿ.[#_­ñ+GÇV«     
> ·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.

Try output to HTML, cleaning up with Tidy (use -asxml), and opening that with 
OOo. PDF is a "roach motel" format.

-- Larry