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- From: gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: impression->TEX
- Message-ID: <2AWTCsj010n@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 00:11:26 GMT
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- Sender: gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan)
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- steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt) writes:
- > gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan) writes:
- > : 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.
-
- I stand corrected (thinking about the contents of the average PostScript
- file, this should have been obvious to me). I was just thinking that a
- converter between two widely used formats would be more likely to exist. I'd
- also question how much information a converter could extract from the
- Impression DDL - enough for straightforward text, yes, but still a severely
- limited subset of Impression's capabilities. Though I could be wrong, or it
- could be good enough for the situation required...
-
- Graham
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- Graham Allan
- Physics Dept, University of St.Andrews gta@st-andrews.ac.uk
-