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Re: Salvaging lost files

#9301
From: Bradley Maris
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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From: bradleym@netcom.com (Bradley Maris)
Subject: Re: Salvaging lost files
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