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| 56732 | 2002-06-23 09:50:00 | Does anyone know of a 'printer driver' that can produce a Word document? (Along the lines of Print2PDF that installs as a printer driver, but generates a .pdf). Even a postscript to Word converter would do the trick. I have an engineering program that I need to 'post edit' the print files from. |
wuppo (41) | ||
| 56733 | 2002-06-23 10:33:00 | Printing a pdf requires an Adobe product (Acrobat, Exchange or the like). Full featured programs with all sorts of amazing stuff in them. Can you export out of your program to text or the like? |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 56734 | 2002-06-23 10:43:00 | Hi Heather, The program produces printout as text in graphic rectangular boxes. There is no other way of capturing the info, than via printing it. I have no problem 'catching' the printout as a postscript or pdf file, but need to be able to 're-edit' this. Exporting the text from the pdf results in a gross loss of formatting. I live in evershortening hope that there is such a beast as a 'word printer driver' that catches the printout in .doc file. Alternatively, a pdf editor (pref freeware - I don't want to shell out for Acrobat) might do the trick. |
wuppo (41) | ||
| 56735 | 2002-06-23 11:01:00 | Text to Word 1.1? [url=http://tucows.ihug.co.nz/system/preview/241290.html]http://tucows.ihug.co.nz/system/preview/241290.html[url] If not one of the other utilities at Tucows might help. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 56736 | 2002-06-24 06:09:00 | You will lose formatting . There are pdf2ascii and ps2ascii converters for Ghostscript (public domain Postscript) . From your description, your programme does not produce a text, it produces a picture which contains a picture of text . That would not be a nice thing to decode; to recode it so it will plug straight into Word would be horrid . Have you got a scanner, and an OCR programme? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 56737 | 2002-06-24 09:27:00 | Graham, I am using Ghostscript to produce a pdf via a redirected ps file - have tried the text extract via Ghostview, but because of the 'table type' formatting of the origional document, the resultant text needs a lot of work to bring it back to origional shape. I had fleetingly considered OCRing it, but there has to be a 'tidier' way !!! |
wuppo (41) | ||
| 56738 | 2002-06-25 05:10:00 | When something has been done this way in the original programme, there is no tidier way. If you look at the .ps file, you will see that the text is produced nastily. Automatically produced PostScript is like that. Hand written PostScript is much easier to work on. I assume that you used ps2ascii on the .ps file, not on the .pdf which is further away from plain text. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 56739 | 2008-12-30 19:24:00 | Wuppo or anyone else, Were you able to find a utility that could help Print ( to MSWord... like CutePDF helps print to PDF ) |
atul898 (586) | ||
| 56740 | 2008-12-30 19:34:00 | After 6 years I would think so. lease get these old threads LOCKED | gary67 (56) | ||
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