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Matt Parker (matt@mparker.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what I need to convert a postscript file to a
> normal Amiga readable format. I used ghostscript to convert it
> from pdf, with more hassle than I ever want to repeat, but it is
> still not very readable, as in loads of characters etc between the
> words.
> 

As you already have ghostscript you also have the means to save out the
text part of the ps file.

The following is a modification of Ghostscript:batch/ps2ascii (a batch
file for an obscure shell) to work with ADos.

ps2ascii (s flag set)
------------------------>&-----------------------------
 .key PSFILE,OUTFILE
 . Extract ASCII text from a PostScript file.  Usage:
 .       ps2ascii [infile.ps [outfile.txt]]
 . If outfile is omitted, output goes to stdout.
 . If both infile and outfile are omitted, ps2ascii acts as a filter,
 . reading from stdin and writing on stdout.
 . Additionally use OUTFILE=file will process stdin to file
 .bra {
 .ket }
 .def PSFILE "-"

 Stack 32000

 if "{OUTFILE}" EQ ""  ; PSFILE - STDOUT
   gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dNOBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -c save
 -f ps2ascii.ps {PSFILE} -c quit

 else
   gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dNOBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -c save
 -f ps2ascii.ps {PSFILE} -c quit >{OUTFILE}

 endif

------------------------>&-----------------------------

Note the lines starting -f must be joined to the gs lines I have also
added a space at the begining of each line.

Also the resultant text will require reformatting in a text editor or
word processor.

peter
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