From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 11:32:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C49637B81F; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (uzs106@ascend-tk-p79.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.79]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA372714; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:30:55 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA00465; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:07:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:07:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Oscar Ricardo Silva Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to view postscript files? In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000609111731.00ae2280@mail.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IMHO no chance without X, as far as ghostscript is concerned. Except printing, see the section about printing in the handbook. But it should be possible to convert it to ascii, to extract the text. Did it in Dos, so... H. > seen that many documents are distributed in postscript format. If I'm on a > FreeBSD machine, with no X installed, how can I read the contents of these > postscript files? > > I attempted to issue the command: gs myfile.ps but received the following > errors: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message