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Phred wrote:
> In article <slrng6nfic.30fb.wblock@speedy.wonkity.com>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> [Snipped detail of original thread.]
>> 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?
>
Ghostscript/ghostview, available for pretty much any OS.
<http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>

I have a "Generic/Text" printer set up under Windows, and I just print 
the PS file to that when I want "pure" text.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

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