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- pstotext.txt 5 February 2000
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- pstotext 1.8g - PostScript text extractor. Requires Ghostscript.
-
- The files pstotxt1.dll (Win16), pstotxt2.dll (OS/2) pstotxt3.dll (Win32), and
- pstotext.zip (sources) constitute the pstotext package, which was written by
- Paul McJones and Andrew Birrell of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems
- Research Center. These files are copyright by Digital Equipment Corporation.
- You may use them subject to the attached END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT.
-
- The source files are available as pstotext.zip in the GSview source
- distribution, or directly from the authors:
- http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
-
- You can build DLL and command-line versions of pstotext for various
- platforms from the sources:
- PLATFORM BUILD FILE
- Unix Makefile
- Win16 pstotxt1.mak
- OS/2 pstotxt2.mak
- Win32 pstotxt3.mak
- VMS descrip.mms
-
- pstotext was developed as a part of the Virtual Paper system, which is
- a high-quality viewer for computer-generated or scanned documents.
- See:
- http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/
-
- We appreciate Russell Lang's willingness to incorporate pstotext in
- GSview, and his help in redesigning the API to the DLL module and in
- debugging the final version. We thank Hunter Goatley for the VMS
- port.
-
- You can contact the authors at <mcjones@pa.dec.com> and
- <birrell@pa.dec.com>.
- For Windows and OS, contact gsview@ghostgum.com.au;
- for VMS, contact <goathunter@PROCESS.COM>.
-
- Version 1.8g is a modification of the original 1.8 to allow
- operation with Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0 and to add -output to
- Windows and OS/2 executables. Modifications made 2000-03-11
- by Russell Lang at Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.
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