From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 00:14:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA05462 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip085.lax.primenet.com [204.212.59.85]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA05452 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id AAA17175; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610140718.AAA17175@foo.primenet.com> To: hmmm@alaska.net Subject: Re: ps Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: freebsd-questions X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >is there a text mode .ps reader ? >i checked all the search engines and other things, >but can't find too much on PostScript. There are a number of tools that can extract the text from postscript. The best one is one from Digital--it's a research tool, and free for most (all?) uses. Go to http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ for information on it as pstotext. Unfortunately, it is nothing near WYSIWYG. You get the text of the document, sometimes in improper order. However, I'll tell you that my experience is that it is an order of magnitude better than the other postscript to text converters. >if not, any other way to read .ps files without >Xwindow? >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ? http://www.alaska.net/~hmmm >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/