On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 22:11 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I have some very old (Wordstar 3) documents which I'd like to print to a > plain text file with simple newlines, page headers and footers, etc, so > I need a generic printer with a "print to file" option. There's no such > printer available on OpenOffice, so I tried to add one.
Actually, it looks like if I set up a printer in cups, it shows up in OpenOffice, so that question is answered, but I still can't get a proper likeness of the document to file. The document was created in Wordstar 3 under CP/M in the 80s. I managed to get it properly imported into Microsoft Word using a rather obscure input filter, and the resulting MS Word file was partially true to the original formatting. I opened this file in OpenOffice and did a fair amount of work to bring the page and line formatting back to original. Wordstar did soft hyphens at line ends - which had gotten lost in conversion - and I had to replace these and a bunch of the indentation to restore the full justificiation of all paragraphs as the origignal had. The resulting document uses a Courier non-prop. font and I'd like to be able to print it to a text file _just as it looks_ and preserve all the indentation, centering and justification. Seems like just about any format I save it to, however (HTML, RTF, text) loses these features and I'll have another job ahead of me re-formatting everything again in vim or some other text editor. This can be done, but I'm wondering if there's any way to get text output from OpenOffice that's truer to the original appearance. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
