Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:24:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Simon N Atkin <simat@enta.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Postscript to text conversion ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728141700.19259A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <33DCED69.57AB@enta.net>
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Simon N Atkin wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know how to convert a standard postscript > document in to ascii text, i.e files with the .ps extension, > as some documents that come with some ports only have > documentation in .ps format. ps2ascii does a pretty good job; it comes with ghostscript. > > also whilst we are on the subject, does anyone know how to > strip out the vt codes in special text, i.e the vt characters > that give certain words a color when catted. (printing of manpages) > If you just print this text staight to the printer then we > get some characters twice. Pipe it through col -b. E.g., man chmod | col -b > chmod.txt Or cat file | col -b > outfile Annelise > > Cheers > > > Simon Atkin (simat@enta.net) :) >
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