Dvips2ascii

Jul 20, 2023

PostScript (created by dvips) to ASCII converter

dvips2ascii

This is a PostScript-to-ascii converter which works for PostScript files created by dvips. Results are usually better than using ps2ascii which comes with ghostscript.

USAGE dvips2ascii < psfile > asciifile

dvips2ascii is a perl script, therefore it is slow. There is limited support for accented characters mainly german umlauts. Let me know if you want support for other special characters.

Comments, bug reports and fixes to

eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de Slaven Rezic


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