From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 07:01:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C725916A421 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B3213C46A for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l7N71gkK040632; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l7N71g3K040631; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:01:36 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20070823070136.GD38080@thought.org> References: <20070822073547.GA31201@thought.org> <20070822074715.GA2854@darklight.org.ru> <20070822201954.GB36484@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070822201954.GB36484@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Yuri Pankov Subject: Re: ps2ascii. &c. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:01:58 -0000 On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:47:15AM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:47AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > Guys, > > > > > > If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions. > > > Anyway, where are the pdf and pd and other ghostscript converters? > > > I thought these utilities were in the default distribution, but I > > > can't find them. pdfps, pdftoascii, and so forth. > > > > > > thanks in advance for any help, > > > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix > > > > > > > They are in print/ghostscript-{afpl,gnu,gpl}, though ghostscript-gpl is > > preferred one. > > > > > > HTH, > > > It prob'ly will. Maybe I can select which things to build from > the Makefile. It's been awhle. > > gary > > > > > Yuri To everyone, An update to whomever is interested in these conversion programs. I tried ps2ascii (or whatever "apropos pdf" found tht might convert a pdf file to plain text. It blew up. So I scp'd the pdf file to my Ubuntu computer and ran pdftotext -layout *pdf. It worked vvery well. Next, I spent hours googling around until I foound that pdftotext is part of "xpdf". There are several of these ancillary programs from xpdf. I'm building it now on my new tao. See how it works. For now, I'm just making a note of these obscure details in my ~/.Notes files. Now, this stuff will be available inthe -questions archives. Just FWIW. this day has gone on for about 97 hours! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix