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On 23/09/2011 14:11, NoHtmlMailsPlease wrote:
> My final aim is to have adobe's pdf to speech not
> make unnatural breaks, because of page-breaks which
> don't correspond to paragraph-breaks;
> which is what I get when I use openOffice for text to pdf.

There is almost certainly no existing program that creates PDF files 
suitably optimised for a specific PDF-to-speech application.


> The "hello world" ps-tut

Perhaps you mean 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#.22Hello_world.22 or something 
very like it.

> doesn't deal with stepping the
> y-coordinates down to the next line.
>
> How should I do this, without getting married to ANOTHER
> programming language?

You can't do this in Postscript without learning the Postscript 
programming language to an elementary level of competence.

You could try 
http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~zben/PostScript/asciiprint.html but I've no 
idea whether it produces PS from which GS can produce PDF from which 
your PDF-to-speech application can produce intelligible speech.


If your goal is to convert some existing text to something that is very 
well suited to a text-to-speech application, I believe it would be best 
to avoid PS or PDF as initial or intermediate formats.

I would evaluate using either plain-text or one of the more common 
book-reader formats (e.g. mobi). I believe some models of Kindle can 
read books aloud, perhaps their PC "kindle" software also can.

-- 
RGB