Print to File plain text option instead of just PDF and PS

[getut]

How can I print to a plain ascii text file?

There is the built in KDE option to print to file that only allows PDF or PS. I tried adding a printer and chose generic text but it still has to tie it to a port or device uri instead of going to a file.

[decoherence]

To the best of my knowledge, you can't. The only reason you can print to PS is that it is a printer language and PDF is a superset of it.

What are you trying to achieve that copy/paste or Save As... won't do? There may be another way -- there are tools to convert PDF or PS to flat text but they may not be appropriate depending on what you are trying to do.

[getut]

To the best of my knowledge, you can't. The only reason you can print to PS is that it is a printer language and PDF is a superset of it.

What are you trying to achieve that copy/paste or Save As... won't do? There may be another way -- there are tools to convert PDF or PS to flat text but they may not be appropriate depending on what you are trying to do.

It's not that I can't get it into text in any way. I can copy and paste from PDF to text, but am looking for a direct to text file option to reduce time since we are printing quite a few of these from an AS400 and then using the text data to build more documents.