On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:37:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [PLUG] ps2ascii not working: GS-8.63I've the GNU Ghostscript-8.63 installed, but when I try to convert a printed Web page (*.ps) to text (*.txt), I get what appears to be raw PostScript rather than ASCII text. I'm using Firefox-3.0.14. Has anyone else encountered this? Is it related to a more current version of PS than that supported by ps2ascii? Are there alternative tools I could use? Rich
My ps2ascii man page mentions pstotext as an alternative. It claims that pstotext is actually better because it takes the width of characters into account: ps2ascii ignoriert die Schriftkodierung und kommt nicht sonderlich gut mit Unterscheidung (Kerning) zurecht. Somit sollten Sie für PostScript (aber gegenwärtig nicht für PDF) pstotext benutzen (siehe unten). Which means (roughly): ps2ascii ignores the encoding and does not do especially well with kerning. For that you should use pstotext for postscript (but presently not for PDF). Carlos
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