From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 19 23:29:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA07582 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07576 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip204.konnections.com [192.41.71.204]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id AAA24137; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:28:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335B15D4.3D8CC70A@konnections.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:23:00 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philip Hall CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: post script docs in plain text? References: <199704200601.CAA37574@navajo.gate.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Phil: Look for a program in /usr/bin called `ps2ascii'. It's supposed to convert PostScript to ascii. Never worked for me, but maybe I did something wrong.... Good luck, -Mike Philip Hall wrote: > > I have a suggestion for the documentation which now seems to > be available only in post script. > > It would be extremely helpful if these documents could be made > available in plain text format, or some other ascii format. > > The reson for this is, many people with visual impairments > can ot access a post script document, but can read an ascii file, either > plain ascii, or html. > > An example of one of these documents is the document in the > tutorial section, dealing with FreeBSD device driver writing. > > If you have any questions or comments for me, my E-mail address is: > phall@gate.net > > Thank you for your time, and for the many other accessable documents. > > phil