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- From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii
- Message-ID: <BzzL04.Fxv@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:31:15 GMT
- References: <W_STEF.92Dec23094220@athalia.unibw-hamburg.de> <FURNISH.92Dec25222554@dino.ph.utexas.edu> <1992Dec28.185020.27458@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec28.185020.27458@Princeton.EDU> bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
- >In article <FURNISH.92Dec25222554@dino.ph.utexas.edu> furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish) writes:
- >>In article ... (Stefano Ianigro) writes:
- >>
- >> In article .. (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
- >>
- >> In article ... tglovie@sail.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
- >> >Hello,
- >> >
- >> >I was wondering if there is such a beast as a postscript to ascii
- >> >converter?
- >>
- >> There's something called ps2txt. The results are pretty ugly,
- >> but look better after piping through fmt. Sorry, I don't know
- >> where to get it.
- >>
- >> Barbara Vaughan
- >>
- >> I think a better solution is to grab the psf-package. It can be
- >> used as a filter system for PostScript-printers and as a converter
- >> for ASCII->PostScript. You'll find it on several ftp-servers. The
- >> current version is psf-3.5
- >>
- >>For another data point, I use something called a2ps. Use archie to
- >>find it, I can't remember where I got it.
- >>
- >
- >Isn't the original poster asking for the reverse, i.e. PS to ascii?
- >
- >Barbara Vaughan
-
-
- You can get ps2txt with SWI-Prolog. Get IAFA-LIST* from sunsite.unc.edu
- or ls-lR from tsx-11.mit.edu and fgrep for "swi". That will tell you
- name of swi-prolog package. Download it, and locate the ps2txt program.
- If memory servers, it is in a doc or man directory.
-
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