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In article <1992Jul30.113455.13997@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
	tim@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Tim Pugh) writes:
>Please podon my ignorance but it would seem that PostScript is a great
>output file format but not readily available as an input format.  While
>I am able to open a '.ps' file in Edit, all I see is "raw" PostScript".
>WriteNow will not even show that a '.ps' file exists in it's open panel.
>While Preview is great for display of a '.ps' file, how does one convert
>it to an input format such as RTF or ASCII (without the PS commands)?

This is one of the most commonly asked questions in the newsgroup
comp.lang.postscript.  <-- blatant plug

The general answer is, "you can't."  PostScript is an honest-to-
goodness programming language, and the ONLY way to make sense of
arbitrary PostScript is to execute it.  Except for rigid subsets
(such as Adobe Illustrator format) that are basically data
structures suitably contrived to pass for valid PostScript, it's
impossible to do what you're asking for any but the most trivial
files (which generally means no reencodings, no kerning, etc.).
Sometimes you can get away with redefining a whole bunch of
operators (ref. distill) and get something meaningful, especially
if whatever generated the PostScript in the first place wasn't
deliberately mean-spirited.

					-=EPS=-