From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 21 22:26:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B0216A419 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:26:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net (lon-mail-1.gradwell.net [193.111.201.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7029B13C45D for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:26:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net ([193.111.201.125] helo=webmaker country=GB ident=dave&pop3*dgmm#net) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with esmtpa (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.243) id 46cb6691.8f6d.58 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:26:25 +0100 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:22:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070821212215.GA27790@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20070821212215.GA27790@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708212322.27700.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Subject: Re: where oh where has my converter stuff gone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:26:27 -0000 On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, > > Where does the ps2ascii and related converter files live in > ports? I thought they were part of the distribution, but nope. > pdftopdf was one. > > thanks for any clues! > > > gary Starting with: cd /usr/ports && make search name=ps2ascii leads me to Port: dvips2ascii-1.3 Path: /usr/ports/print/dvips2ascii Info: PostScript (created by dvips) to ascii conve sounds close, but maybe no cigar so lets have a look at the pkg-descr cat /usr/ports/print/dvips2ascii/pkg-descr dvips2ascii ----------- This is a PostScript-to-ascii converter which works for PostScript files created by dvips. Results are usually better than using ps2ascii which comes with ghostscript. Bingo! It's part of ghostscript, unless, of course you find dvips2ascii works for you :-) -- Dave