From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii Date: 28 Dec 1992 20:31:15 GMT
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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