Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Looking for a postscript to ascii converter Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 07:18:28 GMT References: <766@milton.acs.washington.edu> Organization: Drew University/NJIN Lines: 21 In article <766@milton.acs.washington.edu> spline@milton.acs.washington.edu (Matt Lehman) writes: > Actually something that does eps -> acsii would be ideal, but raw > postscript to ascii will work ok. > > Matt Lehman Internet: spline@milton.u.washington.edu >"A mind is a terrible thing...and it must be stopped before it hurts somebody" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- You've been successful, I take it? If you are on a Unix system, the command already exists. Try looking up the "cat" command. -Tom P.S. Do you mean something that will extract the text out of a postscript file? You might not be able to do it accurately, but no doubt a down-and-dirty AWK script might be able to do it. You'll get the text, maybe not in the right order, but you'll get the text. -- Tom Limoncelli -- limonce@pilot.njin.net -- tlimonce@drunivac.bitnet rutgers!njin!tlimonce -- Drew University, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com