On May 1, Nikolaj Richers wrote > Can anyone think of a utility or word processor that can read Postscript > files and save them in a common WP or even TeX format?
I'm afraid such a utility does not (and up to a certain degree, can not) exist. PostScript is a full general programming language, and thus such a utility would in principle have to understand any program in the PostScript language. ps2ascii and pstotext seem to work for most PostScript, but only produce flat text output. > The reason being, I need to move a few years' worth of word processing > files off my A3000-040 and the only useful/portable format I can come up > with is to print everything to Postscript. This includes stuff like my > thesis and dissertation fragments, articles, etc., which I don't really > want as ASCII files, if I can avoid it. For a specific word-processor's PostScript output, it might be possible to reconstruct some kind of low-level text with layout information (ASCII + font/style info), but even this would be far from structured text. Your best bet would be - to find another output format which can be converted to one you can use on your current system or - to analyze the word processor's native format and write a converter yourself. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
