Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu0.cc.monash.edu.au!monu4!ins845b From: ins845b@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr k.l. lentin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Postscript on a line printer? Message-ID: <1991May27.064536.6588@monu0.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 27 May 91 06:45:36 GMT References: <1991May24.093210.6504@agate.mincom.oz.au> <6q1H34w164w@dat1hb.north.de> Sender: news@monu0.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Organization: Monash University, Clayton, Vic 3168, Australia Lines: 15 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! |/ |\evin