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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!acorn!steve
- From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: impression->TEX
- Message-ID: <17723@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 10:29:15 GMT
- References: <2AclGhj010n@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK
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- gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan) writes:
- : As for printing, all RISC OS applications will output PostScript using the
- : PrinterPS printer driver, so you should be able to get high-quality output
- : from any such program. If you still need a TeX format for some other reason,
- : I would guess the existance of a PostScript to TeX converter is a lot more
- : likely than that of an Impression to TeX converter.
-
- You can't in general "uncompile" PostScript output to any useful
- semblance of the source document. Structural information is not
- preserved in the PostScript output. Impression to TeX is a far more
- feasible operation.
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- Steve Hunt steve@acorn.co.uk
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