Re: (pdf,ps,dvi) -->> (rtf, doc) What's the best route?

From: Antonio RodrX (arodriguez31_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 12/15/03

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    >
    > Did you try pdftotext? It is part of the xpdf-package.
    >
    > If you can get the source (tex/Latex) code of the document, you can
    > use Hevea to create a .html or .txt version.
    >

    I just tried pdftotext, but there is a problem with the encoding that is
    giving me trouble, and I don't know how to fix it. Something about the
    path to it or so. The tex source I have it, but is in plain tex, and
    hevea keeps complaining about it, since seemingly it expects Latex. So
    far the best solution of the three proposed has been catdvi -s -e 2
    file.dvi > file.txt (which by the way I don't understand, sine my
    machines should be encoding in utf-8, and the source is made in them).
    The only problem is the paragraph-line-space formatting, that I have to
    fix by hand. Without the -s option was even worse. Does anyone have any
    idea about how to solve this with some script or so? Thanks to all for
    the great help. 

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