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Re: Ps --> xml (or html)

• From: Lisa Rein <lisarein@f...>
• To: "Eve L. Maler" <elm@a...>
• Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 07:09:12 -0700

Actually, Ghostscript does it pretty easily.  You just go to the "Edit"
menu nand then "Text Extract", but you have to make sure that 
the "PS to Text" is checked on "Normal". ("PS to Text" is on the
"Options" menu)

lisa

Eve L. Maler wrote:
> 
> Ghostscript claims to be able to "extract text" (so that you could do a
> PostScript-to-text-to-XML process), but at a quick glance I can't see how
> you do it.
> 
>          Eve
> 
> At 04:53 PM 9/10/99 +1000, James Robertson wrote:
> >At 16:27 10/09/1999 , David LeBlanc wrote:
> >
> >>Hi;
> >>
> >>Anyone know of a PS to xml (or html) converter?
> >>
> >>TIA
> >>
> >>Dave LeBlanc
> >
> >If "PS" means Postscript, then that's a big
> >ask ...
> >
> >Postscript can contain absolutely anything
> >that can be output to a printer: test, graphics,
> >equations, line art, anything ...
> >
> >Even worse, a lot of the text is broken up
> >and specified according to exact placement
> >on the page, etc, so it's not trivial to
> >try and reconstruct a text flow ...
> >
> >Also, if XML is your target, how would
> >you determine what tags to use for the
> >text?
> >
> >That being said, who know's what some
> >brilliant mind has created out there, but
> >I wouldn't hold your breath.
> >
> >J
> >
> >
> >-------------------------
> >James Robertson
> >Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
> >SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy
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