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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:12:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: NatureBoy <mephisto@nosferatu.cas.usf.edu>
To: Stephen Tsai <tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Convert Postscript file to ASCII file
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One of the executables built when installing ghostscript is a ps to ascii 
converter.  It will produce legible, though, not well formatted text.

Joe Orthoefer

On Tue, 22 Aug 1995, Stephen Tsai wrote:

> I am wondering if there is any way to convert a postscript file
> into a plain ASCII file.   I don't have a postscript printer.
> I was not able to print postscript files.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Yao-Wen Stephen Tsai 8/22/95  
>