[comp.text.tex] dvi to ascii conversion program.

erikj@hydra.unm.edu (Erik Johannes STUDENT) (07/02/90)

I have been trying to find a program to convert dvi files to ascii.  I need
it to send text, such as resumes, to people without TeX or who don't want
to bother with TeX.  The conversion utility should take a dvi file and out
put the basic formatted tex in either ansi or simple control character free
text.

I would appreciate it if anybody could direct me to such a utility.  I do
have ftp capability and this is my prefered method of aquiring files.

			Thank You,
				Erik Johannes
				erikj@unmvax.cs.unm.edu

piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (07/04/90)

In article <1990Jul2.020027.10033@ariel.unm.edu>, erikj@hydra (Erik Johannes STUDENT) writes:
 |
 |I have been trying to find a program to convert dvi files to ascii.  I need
 |it to send text, such as resumes, to people without TeX or who don't want
 |to bother with TeX.  The conversion utility should take a dvi file and out
 |put the basic formatted tex in either ansi or simple control character free
 |text.
 |
The program dvi2tty will do this. It is not perfect, but reasonable. You
can FTP it from sol.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5], file pub/TEX/dvi2tty.shar.
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