Re: How to Convert a Postscript Document to a Word Document

No it can't. Preview only saves as various graphics formats (tiff, jpeg.
etc.) and pdf. (You're probably thinking of TextEdit.)

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From: "Phillip M. Jones, CE.T." <pjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: VPEA
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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:23:26 -0400
Subject: Re: How to Convert a Postscript Document to a Word Document

Ithink Preview can also save as Word or RTF as well.

Douglas McKibbin wrote:
Thank you John, Chris, and Phillip.
Preview can conveert the PS document to PDF. I'll have to try Acrobat
Reader, copy, and paste into Word.... then reformat.
Doug
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Hi Chris:

It's simply called "Acrobat" these days. What used to be called "Acrobat
Reader" is now named "Adobe Reader"; the name "Acrobat" is reserved for the
editor.

Phillip is correct: Acrobat 7 will save the document as a Microsoft Word
Document, or as RTF, which Word can read (and in a variety of other formats
as well).

There are two cautions:

1) It's expensive... There are freeware alternatives.

2) The "quality" of the result may not be what you expect. PostScript
does not usually contain enough information to reproduce a Word Document.
What you will get is a file that Word can edit, but the formatting will be
quite strange compared to the way you would normally expect a Word document
to be produced. You will be able to edit it, but the way the file is
constructed may be a little odd.

If the file you have is a PDF, then Adobe Reader will enable you to copy the
text out (without any formatting) page by page. It's often quicker to do
this and simply reformat it from scratch in Word.

Cheers

On 19/6/06 1:25 AM, in article 4fl9joF1i5a87U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris Ridd"
<chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2006-06-18 15:46:19 +0100, "Phillip M. Jones, CE.T."
<pjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Chris Ridd wrote:
On 2006-06-18 14:13:36 +0100, "Douglas McKibbin" <Dougl58492@xxxxxxx>
said:

How can I convert a postscript document to Word? I need to be able to
open the document and edit it .... something I cannot do in Preview (
OSX 10.4.6)
Convert it to PDF, and attempt to edit the pages of the PDF using
things like Illustrator, or Acrobat (the commercial version). Forget
Word for this job.

The reason your idea won't work is that a Postscript document is a
program that when run (for example by a printer, or by Preview.app)
produces as a side-effect a number of pages with marks on them. There's
no guarantee the text on the page will be inside the Postscript file in
any particular order. There's not even the notion of paragraphs or
sentences or words in Postscript!

If you've got significant changes to make (like text to add or delete)
then you will probably have to recreate the document. Very simple
changes (like changing a letter) are possible in the commercial version
of Acrobat etc.

Cheers,

Chris


Actually, Acrobat Pro 7.05 and up will allow you to save the file as a
Word Document.
I just took a look at www.adobe.com and couldn't see them listing a
feature like that. What're they calling it?

If it works, then it sounds like just what the OP needs!

Cheers,

Chris

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