PS to formatted ASCII

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From: Jeff P. Sorvik
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 1990 14:27

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Does anybody know of a way to take a postscript file and format it into an
ascii file that resembles the output from nroff?  In other words,
Interleaf, which
we are using for some of our documentation produces Postscript output, but we
want to be able to also produce a generic formatted ascii file from the same
source.

The ideal solution would be to write a filter from Interleaf ASCII format to
nroff using their Cloverleaf package, but we can't afford the resources to 
do that right now.  I can, however, get a generic postscript file from
Interleaf.  If I could only format the postscript and dump the results to a 
generic ascii file that could be viewed online or sent to a line
printer, I would
be in business.

Any ideas?
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