On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 00:00 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > 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.
Is there some reason you can't save it as a text (or RTF, or opendocument) file? I've imported from obscure wordprocessors before, and saved as normal files fine. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
