Dave,

That's great to know.

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David T. Lewis
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 3:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [OT] RIS vs. BibTeX

Sorry, I meant "ps2ascii". And yes, it does take pdf input as well as 
postscript.

- Dave

NAME
       ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII

SYNOPSIS
       ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
       ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]

DESCRIPTION
       ps2ascii  uses gs(1) to extract ASCII text from PostScript(tm) or Adobe 
Portable Document Format (PDF) files. If no files are speci
       fied on the command line, gs reads from standard input; but PDF input 
must come from an explicitly-named file, not  standard  input.
       If no output file is specified, the ASCII text is written to standard 
output.

       ps2ascii  doesn't look at font encoding, and isn't very good at dealing 
with kerning, so for PostScript (but not currently PDF), you
       might consider pstotext (see below).



On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> ps2text takes pdfs????!!!!!!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> David T. Lewis
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [OT] RIS vs. BibTeX
> 
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 05:10:40AM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> > 
> > I really like LaTeX's abilty to create new environments, markup, etc.  What 
> > do you do for spell checking?
> >
> 
> /usr/bin/ps2text may be of some help. Run your pdf (or ps) output through 
> ps2text, then spell check the flat text file. It's not as nice as a built in 
> spell checker, but maybe better than none at all.
> 
> Dave
>  


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