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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, simat@enta.net
Subject: Re: Postscript to text conversion ??
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> does anyone know how to convert a standard postscript
> document in to ascii text, i.e files with the .ps extension,
> as some documents that come with some ports only have
> documentation in .ps format.
> also whilst we are on the subject, does anyone know how to
> strip out the vt codes in special text, i.e the vt characters
> that give certain words a color when catted. (printing of manpages)
> If you just print this text staight to the printer then we 
> get some characters twice.

You might also want to check out a2ps if you wish to print man
pages.  It will automatically detect man page format, and print
them out very nicely (e.g. man ls | a2ps).

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.interWorks.org