* Re: .PS documents?
@ wlestes
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From: wlestes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
There is also the pstotext program at
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
hth,
--will
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* Re: .PS documents?
` John Covici
@ ` wlestes
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From: wlestes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: covici; +Cc: blinux-list
> >From where can we get pstoedit? Sounds like a useful thing to have.
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/pstoedit
or mirrors there of.
--will
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* Re: .PS documents?
[not found] ` <MXCC10r1JUUE089yn@ccs.covici.com>
@ ` John Covici
` wlestes
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From: John Covici @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
>From where can we get pstoedit? Sounds like a useful thing to have.
--
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com
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* Re: .PS documents?
@ Lar Kaufman
[not found] ` <MXCC10r1JUUE089yn@ccs.covici.com>
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From: Lar Kaufman @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list, sholmes
> What might be the easiest way to read a file with the .ps extension under
> linux with speech? Are there any simple filters out there that convert
> post script format to plain text or ASCII or even html?
The recommended way would be to use the pstoedit utility, which is available
for DOS and MS Windows as well as UNIXoidal OSes. Note that this utility
is a filter that requires an external PostScript processing engine as well;
usually people use the gs (Ghostscript) utility for that functionality.
pstoedit can take PostScript (and several other input forms) and output
several editable forms including column-formatted ASCII text and popular
word-processing formats.
Note that under Linux you can probably use gs with some option flags on
the command line to accomplish plain ASCII output, but that's probably not
a good option for blinux users, since the standard gs build for Linux
assumes you use the X Window System, and it may be frustrating to try to
tailor its behavior from the default with existing documentation... Using
pstoedit will give you a simple and powerful command line interface for
controlling gs use.
-lar
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* Re: .PS documents?
Steve Holmes
@ ` Ari Moisio
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From: Ari Moisio @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steve Holmes; +Cc: blinux-list
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Steve Holmes wrote:
> What might be the easiest way to read a file with the .ps extension under
> linux with speech? Are there any simple filters out there that convert
> post script format to plain text or ASCII or even html?
One way is to use ps2ascii, witch uses ghostscript to convert from .ps
to ascii. Ps2ascii look llike follow
-----
#!/bin/sh -f
# Extract ASCII text from a PostScript file. Usage:
# ps2ascii [infile.ps [outfile.txt]]
# If outfile is omitted, output goes to stdout.
# If both infile and outfile are omitted, ps2ascii acts as a filter,
# reading from stdin and writing on stdout.
if ( test $# -eq 0 ) then
gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dNOBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE ps2ascii.ps - quit.ps
elif ( test $# -eq 1 ) then
gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dNOBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE ps2ascii.ps $1 quit.ps
else
gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dNOBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE ps2ascii.ps $1 quit.ps >$2
fi
-----
> Thanks,
> <Steve>
>
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* .PS documents?
@ Steve Holmes
` Ari Moisio
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From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: blinux-list
What might be the easiest way to read a file with the .ps extension under
linux with speech? Are there any simple filters out there that convert
post script format to plain text or ASCII or even html?
Thanks,
<Steve>
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