| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
What Tool Converts Postscript to Ascii???
I have postscript files that I'd like to do 1 of 2 things, either
convert to ascii for the purpose of printing, or just to read the file
from a workstation... bookreader doesn't seem to do it...?
thanks,
/Mic
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 9058.1 | SMURF::PBECK | Paul Beck | Thu Mar 06 1997 16:12 | 1 | |
Tried showps (1) ? It's a viewer. | |||||
| 9058.2 | GERUND::WOLFE | I'm going to huff, and puff, and blow your house down | Thu Mar 06 1997 18:50 | 18 | |
showps and the older dxvdoc both rely on the Display Postscript X server extension to display PS on your workstation. This extension is available on VMS and Digital UNIX workstations but typically not X terminals nor PC X servers. In you are on a PC or Xterminal you can try ghostscript, (from the freeware cdrom) which has a clone PS interpreter that runs on the client side. Bookreader can only display it's own format of on-line books. If you really don't have access to a PS printer, then as a final act of desperation you can use a utility to extract text from a PS file. This utility was actually written by folks here at DEC and placed in the public domain. It ships with ghostscript and I've seen pointers to it in the PS related notesfiles as well. Note that ghostscript on a PC can print through Windows and render OK output - certainly much better than trying to extract the text. pete | |||||
| 9058.3 | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Thu Mar 06 1997 19:50 | 1 | |
ghostscript will extract text from a PS file. | |||||