Re: [gentoo-desktop] Adding a text fiile printer (or any printer) in OpenOffice

[Florian Philipp]

Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 19:19 schrieb Lindsay Haisley:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 18:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 18:21 schrieb Lindsay Haisley:
> > > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:01 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > I can leave it in any one of a number of formats.  I've created ps, pdf
> > > and odf files which are properly formatted (rtf is not).  My thinking
> > > is that this is archival material and if I'm going to submit it to an
> > > archive site, plain ASCII text is a lot more likely to be easily read
> > > and understood 20 years from now than is a more complex format.
> >
> > Isn't TeX / LaTeX used for this purpose. As the de facto standard for
> > more than 15 years I don't think it will change anytime soon.
>
> So how do I get a document in ODT or PS format into a TeX/LaTeX format?
> OpenOffice doesn't offer this as a save format, nor do I seem to have a
> CLI filter to do the job.  Frankly, I think I'd be better off with a PDF
> format document.  PDF coversion and interpretation is now freely
> available and very common in many tools.
>
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dev-tex/html2latex

Kword and OpenOffice contain a TeX converter but I don't know how good it is. 
They allow you to save plain text, too. Did you try it?

By the way: Since it's for an archive you might consider using a format which 
is easy to compress. I've made the experience that OpenDocument and PDF are 
hard to compress compared to plain text or MS-Word (of course, OpenDocuments 
are already compressed, but not as much as possible).