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тАО04-29-2008 11:31 PM
тАО04-29-2008 11:31 PM
Convert DDIF files to other formats
Are there any free tools available which will convert some of the seemingly obscure (and old) VMS file formats into something PC/Windows friendly?
I'm especially interested in a .DDIF to .PNG (or any other graphics format) as well as a means of converting DecDocument and Runoff files into HTML. WASD has a DecDocument to HTML tool available but this stumbles on some of the directives in the files I have.
Hope you can help
cheers
Brian
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тАО04-29-2008 11:56 PM
тАО04-29-2008 11:56 PM
Re: Convert DDIF files to other formats
allows to convert it to ps. Then you can use ghostscript to convert it to other formats.
Wim
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тАО04-30-2008 12:05 AM
тАО04-30-2008 12:05 AM
Re: Convert DDIF files to other formats
$ create mov.ps
-40 -200 translate
$ write com2 "$ mc SYS$COMMON:[GS.BIN]GS.EXE_AXP",-
" ""-sOutputFile=",prefix,"_",nam,".png""",-
" ""-sDEVICE=png256""", -
" ""-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=525""",-
" ""-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=475""",-
" ""-dNOPAUSE"""," ""-q"" mov.ps ",prefix,"_",nam,".ps"
$ write com2 "$! delete/nolog/noconf ",prefix,"_",nam,".ps.*"
Wim
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тАО04-30-2008 12:27 AM
тАО04-30-2008 12:27 AM
Re: Convert DDIF files to other formats
I use the command e.g.
$ document/content BAX software html
regards Kalle
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тАО04-30-2008 05:51 AM
тАО04-30-2008 05:51 AM
Re: Convert DDIF files to other formats
There's also a CONVERT /DOCUMENT tool on the Freeware that converts from various DDIF formats into (mostly) RTF, as well as the CDA converter library. ("Mostly" RTF, as RTF has been somewhat of a moving target.) Look for DECWRITE and CDA and RTF* and such using the following Google site: keyword:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Amvb.saic.com+ddif+rtf&btnG=Google+Search
There are also tools that do graphics conversions, if that's the DDIF you have.
"Current" DECdocument itself does provide HTML converters (circa 3.3g or so), though these can involve some work on the SDML source text. That's how the OpenVMS FAQ got converted into HTML.
I'm not aware of anything that convert from the SDML format directly to DocBook XML or to something more current for use with the OpenVMS FAQ, though I've been (occasionally) looking for that for a while now. Might end up having to write a tool to convert the SDML source for the FAQ, or possibly working from the intermediate TeX. No Windows locally, so don't expect that to happen.
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тАО04-30-2008 04:26 PM
тАО04-30-2008 04:26 PM
Re: Convert DDIF files to other formats
I have used asc2htm to convert runoff output to html files (and the vms version is free) it will work with any text files that have a consistent format.
Phil