sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) (11/26/88)
I urgently need a ps or troff to ascii converter. It could be very crude, but it must place the page numbers and page breaks correclty. I'm using Adobe ptroff. The (-a) on the version of troff that came with my BSD 4.3 operating system gives me bogus positioning on the page breaks (not even close, much of the time), and so I have been having to print out stuff to spot the page breaks -- a great waste of time and paper. Surely there must be a better way. If I had a filter that would convert the output of troff *or* the postscript output into form of plain ascii that gave some approximation (crude is fine) of the final result, that would be very helpful. The main thing I need is to know where the page breaks are going to be. Many thanks for your help. -- -------------------- Sarge Gerbode -- UUCP: pyramid!thirdi!metapsy!sarge Institute for Research in Metapsychology 950 Guinda St. Palo Alto, CA 94301
kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) (11/27/88)
From article <561@metapsy.UUCP>, by sarge@metapsy.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode): > I urgently need a ps or troff to ascii converter. It could be very > crude, but it must place the page numbers and page breaks correclty. > I'm using Adobe ptroff. The (-a) on the version of troff that came > with my BSD 4.3 operating system gives me bogus positioning Elan Computer Group has three troff previewer products: 1. Eview/CRT for plain ASCII terminals. 2. Eview/SUN for SUN workstations. 3. Eview/X for X windows (currently X10.4). Each provide page numbering, page breaks, line breaks, etc. identical to what you would receive on the final laser printed output. They save a h-u-g-e amount of time! -- Ken Greer Elan Computer Group, Inc. {ames,hplabs,uunet}!elan!kg 415-322-2450