On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Michael Parson <mpar...@bl.org> 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
