Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 20:07:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to view postscript files? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006092002290.423-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000609111731.00ae2280@mail.utexas.edu>
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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
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