app-text/a2ps-4.13c (ahead of x86, but long time with no bugs...) app-text/antiword-0.35 (ditto) app-text/aspell-0.50.5 (ditto) app-text/html2text-1.3.1 app-text/pdftohtml-0.36 (ditto) app-text/txt2tags-1.6 app-text/unix2dos-2.2
they all work. closing. reopen if anyone has any problems.