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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:24:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Simon N Atkin <simat@enta.net>
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Subject: Re: Postscript to text conversion ??
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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) :)
>