From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:50:20 GMT
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