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Re: Postscript to Readable/formatted text ?

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From: hank
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 00:29
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In article <BwtEwx.4sy@CAM.ORG>, pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) writes:
> I'm looking for a utility to convert Postscript to a readable text
> file.  I have a postscript-only document (Zen and the Art of the
> Internet) that I would like to make available online to my users who
> don't have a postscript printer handy.  It doesn't contain graphics.

Jason Black cloister@u.washington.edu posted ps2txt recently. It compiled
easily for OS/2 and MSDOS. I only did limited testing. There is an option
to convert ps files from dvips.

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--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
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