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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html deleted file mode 100644 index 91d907c44a3..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label recovertex</title> -</head><body> -<h3>Retrieving (La)TeX from DVI, etc.</h3> -<p/>The job just can’t be done automatically: DVI, PostScript and -PDF are “final” formats, supposedly not susceptible to -further editing — information about where things came from has been -discarded. So if you’ve lost your (La)TeX source (or never -had the source of a document you need to work on) you’ve a serious job -on your hands. In many circumstances, the best strategy is to retype -the whole document, but this strategy is to be tempered by -consideration of the size of the document and the potential typists’ -skills. -<p/>If automatic assistance is necessary, it’s unlikely that any more than -text retrieval is going to be possible; the (La)TeX markup that -creates the typographic effects of the document needs to be recreated -by editing. -<p/>If the file you have is in DVI format, many of the techniques -for <a href="FAQ-toascii.html">converting (La)TeX to ASCII</a> are -applicable. Consider <i>dvi2tty</i>, <i>crudetype</i> and -<i>catdvi</i>. Remember that there are likely to be problems -finding included material (such as included PostScript figures, that -don’t appear in the DVI file itself), and mathematics is -unlikely to convert easily. -<p/>To retrieve text from PostScript files, the -<i>ps2ascii</i> tool (part of the <i>ghostscript</i> -distribution) is available. One could try applying this tool to -PostScript derived from an PDF file using <i>pdf2ps</i> (also -from the <i>ghostscript</i> distribution), or <i>Acrobat</i> -<i>Reader</i> itself; an alternative is <i>pdftotext</i>, -which is distributed with <i>xpdf</i>. -<p/>Another avenue available to those with a PDF file they want to -process is offered by Adobe <i>Acrobat</i> (version 5 or later): -you can tag the PDF file into an estructured document, output -thence to well-formed XHTML, and import the results into -Microsoft <i>Word</i> (2000 or later). From there, one may -convert to (La)TeX using one of the techniques discussed in - -“<a href="FAQ-fmtconv.html">converting to and from (La)TeX</a>”. -<p/>The result will typically (at best) be poorly marked-up. Problems may -also arise from the oddity of typical TeX font encodings (notably -those of the maths fonts), which <i>Acrobat</i> doesn’t know how -to map to its standard Unicode representation. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>catdvi</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/catdvi.zip">dviware/catdvi</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/catdvi/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/catdvi.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>crudetype</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/crudetype.zip">dviware/crudetype</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/crudetype/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/crudetype.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>dvi2tty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvi2tty.zip">dviware/dvi2tty</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvi2tty/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dvi2tty.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>ghostscript</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ghostscript/GPL">support/ghostscript/GPL</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/ghostscript-GPL.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>xpdf</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/xpdf">support/xpdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/xpdf.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p><em>This answer last edited: 2009-05-29</em></p> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=recovertex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=recovertex</a> -</body> |