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Re: Postscript on a line printer?

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From: mr k.l. lentin
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 06:45
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In article <6q1H34w164w@dat1hb.north.de> lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze) writes:
>> 	Could anyone please inform as to weather or not there is a utility
>> around that allows you to print a postscript file to a line printer hanging o
>> an IBM PC using its graphics mode.
>  Assuming that by line printer you mean dot matrix, I can recoomend
>GOSCRIPT. It works quite well, even with graphics on the page, different
>fonts, etc. I'm afraid I cannot tell you where to get the program,
>though.

Great! But is there a program that will extract the text from a postscript
file only. I find a lot of papers and manuals in postscript and just want to
convert it to a text file!

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