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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f6918cc60c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-recovertex.html @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +<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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi.zip">dviware/catdvi</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/catdvi/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>crudetype</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/crudetype.zip">dviware/crudetype</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/crudetype.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/crudetype/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>dvi2tty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty.zip">nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/dviware/dvi2tty/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>ghostscript</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/support/ghostscript/">nonfree/support/ghostscript/</a> +<dt><tt><i>xpdf</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/xpdf/">support/xpdf/</a> +</dl> +<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> |