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Article #9301Re: Salvaging lost files
From: Bradley Maris
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 08:34
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 08:34
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kaikow@standards.com wrote: > Is there a program for the conversion of postscript and/or encapsulated > postscript files to a form that can be used by Microsoft Word, perhaps as > a Rich Text Format file? Ya know... I've been looking for something that could do this. And in the interim, I've learned a bit about Postscript. I found a program that was supposed to return unformated text, but it didn't seem to work for me. So.... I think the answer is, no. The reason for Postscript is that you can describe a page, but it remains ASCII text. And the file can contain graphics as well. That makes it easy to mail someone a file that is both program independant, and platform independant. But then you need to have a Postscript printer to output the file. I've seen a program called Emulaser that was a Postscript emulator... but it was VERY slow. It took 3-4 minutes a page on a 386-33. It allowed viewing of the files before printing, but that took almost as long.... page by page. :( Oh well... I hope someone has a better answer.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cba,e1d6f80426ea797 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cba,public X-Google-Thread: f62f2,e1d6f80426ea797 X-Google-Attributes: gidf62f2,public X-Google-Thread: f78a4,e1d6f80426ea797 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78a4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-01-28 21:37:42 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,bit.mailserv.word-pc,bit.mailserv.word-mac Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!news.cs.kuleuven.ac.be!ub4b!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net! cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!bradleym From: bradleym@netcom.com (Bradley Maris) Subject: Re: Salvaging lost files Message-ID: <bradleymCKBztp.CnK@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript,bit.mailserv.word-pc,bit.mailserv.word-mac Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <CK2JHq.Jtr@mv.mv.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 08:34:37 GMT Lines: 21