HELP! -- Urgently need postscript or troff to ascii converter

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From: Sarge Gerbode
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1988 05:17

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I urgently need a ps or troff to ascii converter.  It could be very
crude, but it must place the page numbers and page breaks correclty.
I'm using Adobe ptroff. The (-a) on the version of troff that came
with my BSD 4.3 operating system gives me bogus positioning
on the page breaks (not even close, much of the time), and so I have
been having to print out stuff to spot the page breaks -- a great
waste of time and paper.

Surely there must be a better way.  If I had a filter that would
convert the output of troff *or* the postscript output into  form of
plain ascii that gave some approximation (crude is fine) of the final
result, that would be very helpful.  The main thing I need is to know
where the page breaks are going to be.

Many thanks for your help.
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Sarge Gerbode -- UUCP:  pyramid!thirdi!metapsy!sarge
Institute for Research in Metapsychology
950 Guinda St.  Palo Alto, CA 94301

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From: sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
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Subject: HELP! -- Urgently need postscript or troff to ascii converter
Summary: Need to see the page breaks without printing.
Message-ID: <561@metapsy.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 88 05:17:29 GMT
Reply-To: sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Organization: Metapsychology, Woodside, CA
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