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- From: bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- Subject: Re: Postscript to Ascii
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.185020.27458@Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Princeton University
- References: <1992Dec23.065116.16162@Princeton.EDU> <W_STEF.92Dec23094220@athalia.unibw-hamburg.de> <FURNISH.92Dec25222554@dino.ph.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:50:20 GMT
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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?
- >
- > 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
-