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In article <slrng6nfic.30fb.wblock@speedy.wonkity.com>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
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>There are three main advantages of PostScript:
>
>Quality.
>Resolution independence.
>Device independence.
>
>The importance of any of those depends on what is being printed.

Every now and then some bugger sends me a PS file in response to a 
request for info.  It's not such a hassle now because my second hand 
HP4100 can print such files if I simply COPY them to PRN; but it was a 
pain in the arse before I managed to get hold of a PS aware printer!

The experience has left me wondering if there is a "translator" that 
will turn a PS file back into normal editable (or at least a PC 
readable image) "text".  

I must admit I was originally thinking simple *text*; but as I wrote 
the above subject line it finally dawned on me that PostScript is much 
more than a text to printer translator!  So it seems unlikely that the 
original document can easily (and freely :) be restored except as some 
sort of PC compatible image format (GIF, JPEG, TIF, ...).

Questions are... Can it be done, and by what?

Cheers, Phred.

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