Re: [Groff] conversion to DOC format

[Robert Goulding]

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From: "Roger Leigh" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Groff] conversion to DOC format


> M Bianchi <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> From: Dean Allen Provins <address@hidden>
> >> Subject: [Groff] conversion to DOC format
> >> :
> >> Many firms or government agencies require cover letters and resumes in
> >> Microsoft Word (i.e. .DOC) format.  Alas groff doesn't generate this
...
> >
> > What I do is to create a PostScript (*.ps) formatted output and then use
> >  ps2pdf(1)  to create a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
>
> I also do this.  However, I noticed that it often messes up the
> character spacing, particularly where ligatures or special characters
> are concerned.  As an example, turn groff_char(7) into ps, and then to
> pdf; you'll see the resultant PDF has many alignment problems :-(
>
> This is the case with groff 1.18.1 and ps2pdf/gs 7.07.1 (Debian).
>

This bug (as we've discussed before on this list) only appears in the
ghostscript 7 series; it wasn't in (say) 6.53, and it's fixed in the latest
ghostscript.

Robert.