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[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- FS -dot- COM -dot- AU>]

Hi Sabahat, nice to see you back.

Jay Anderson said:
> The version of Ghostview that I use (GSVIEW32, v2.3), has a Text
> Extract... feature under the Edit menu.   Works great!!!

The DOS and UNIX versions of Ghostview include a command-line version,
ps2ascii, so you could do bulk conversions if necessary.  Here are the
command line options:

$ ps2ascii -h
Ghostscript version 2.6.1 (5/28/93)
Copyright (C) 1990-1993 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Available devices:
    x11 tiffg3
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
    @<file>              treat file like part of the command line
                           (to get around DOS command line limit)
    -d<name>[=<token>]   define name as token, or null if no token given
    -f<file>             read this file even if its name begins with - or @
    -g<width>x<height>   set width and height (`geometry'), in pixels
    -I<prefix>           add prefix to search path
    -q                   `quiet' mode, suppress most messages
    -r<res>              set resolution, in pixels per inch
    -s<name>=<string>    define name as string
    -sDEVICE=<devname>   select initial device
    -sOutputFile=<file>  select output file: embed %d for page #,
                           - means stdout, use |command to pipe
`-' alone as a file name means read from stdin non-interactively.
For more complete information, please read the use.doc file.

BTW I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere about using "ghost view"
to see things in "post-crypt".

Regards
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Stuart Burnfield
Functional Software Pty Ltd
mailto:slb -at- fs -dot- com -dot- au