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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Khelbin Sunvold <khelbin@ntplx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Converting PS to ASCII
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970910195939.15258T-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970910180818.16081B-100000@sea.ntplx.net>

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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Khelbin Sunvold wrote:

> 
> Is there any program available on the net or installed with FreeBSD that
> will allow a person to convert PostScript to ASCII? 

If you have the Ghostscript package, it includes a `ps2ascii' converter
for converting PostScript to ASCII.  More correctly, it extracts the ASCII
text from the PostScript file and tries to format it; it doesn't do the
best job since this is inexact science.  :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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