From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 20:12:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA08804 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 20:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA08782 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 20:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilligan.eng.umd.edu (gilligan.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.205]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA06821; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:11:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by gilligan.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA28946; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:11:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:11:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@gilligan.eng.umd.edu To: Gary Chrysler cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Postscript conversion In-Reply-To: <31B39EB6.8A@ime.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > Hiya all. > > I have searched the archives so I know this question has been asked > many times, The answer was always Ghostscript! Ghostscript only uses X if it has been set up with the X11 driver. The ghostscript that comes with the base FreeBSD doesn't require it (If you set up ghostscript with the X11 driver, and either set that driver up as default, or specify it with flags, it will show it's output on a X11 window. It's unfriendly, which is the reason why ghostview and gv exist). Ghostscript can be set up to do what you want, I think there's a ps2ascii script that does it, but beware! It doesn't know about carriage returns too well, so each sentence is one line long (and you get some real long lines because of that...) The ghostscript in ports includes every driver under the sun, what a list! > I don't have X installed! > > So is there any other way I can convert postscript files to ascii? > I would really like to read the socks manual! > > I have checked out psutils and didn't find anyway to convert > _to_ ascii, Did I miss something? > > Thanks > Gary > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours > The Borg... Where minds meet > (207) 929-3848 > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------