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From: kent@Xerox.com (Chris Kent)
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Subject: Re: want postscript to text filter
Keywords: postscript filter text
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Date: 22 Feb 91 23:32:58 GMT
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An alternative is to use Glenn Reid's Distillery to put the output PS into a canonical form, which you can then parse fairly well into the ASCII that you want.
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