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- From: plph@engin.umich.edu (Mark Montague)
- Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 01:38:21 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Dec23.065116.16162@Princeton.EDU> <W_STEF.92Dec23094220@athalia.unibw-hamburg.de> <FURNISH.92Dec25222554@dino.ph.utexas.edu>
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- 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?
- >
- >[... stuff deleted ...]
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >Geoff Furnish
- >
-
- Yet another data point:
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- I have used both psf and a2ps and I prefer a program called nenscript.
- It is a free enscript clone. This is just a personal preference...
- nenscript could not be called as powerful or feature-ful as psf.
- I just think that the output looks better AND there is only one binary...
- no data files or configuration files that clutter up /usr/local/lib.
- Use archie to find it. The latest version is 1.12, I beleive.
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- One tip: make sure you compile nenscript with the -fwritable-strings
- gcc flag or nenscript will segmenation fault all over you.
-
- Mark Montague
- plph@caen.engin.umich.edu
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