Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:29:12 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps2ascii. &c. Message-ID: <20070822202912.GC36484@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <46CBEFD6.9060102@math.arizona.edu> References: <20070822073547.GA31201@thought.org> <46CBEFD6.9060102@math.arizona.edu>
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:12:06AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > > > If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions. > > Anyway, where are the pdf and pd and other ghostscript converters? > > I thought these utilities were in the default distribution, but I > > can't find them. pdfps, pdftoascii, and so forth. > > > > thanks in advance for any help, > > > > gary > > > > > > > > > > > I use ghostscript-gpl-8.57 which is in print. > The commands are actually ps2pdf and pdf2ps. I am not using acscii > converter but I the command is > ps2ascii. Are you sure you are using right commands? On my Ubuntu server (which is starting to fail big time) there is pdf2ascii. It takes severa flags, so it may be a custom script from the Debian guys. Here (FBSD) the scripts are similar, but much simpler; fewer flaf.s. --Of course I haven't upgraded ghostscript-gnu for months. BTW, I was looking for the ps/pdf stuff in converters.... Live and learn! > > The other converters like dvips, dvipdfm are in print. thanks, gents; it helps to have all this expertise gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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