[PLUG] ps2ascii not working: GS-8.63

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Carlos Konstanski wrote:

> My ps2ascii man page mentions pstotext as an alternative. It claims that
> pstotext is actually better because it takes the width of characters into
> account:

> ps2ascii ignores the encoding and does not do especially well with
> kerning. For that you should use pstotext for postscript (but presently
> not for PDF).

Carlos,

   pstotext is much older than ps2ascii:

pstotext 1.9 of 2003-01-09
Copyright (C) 1995-1998, Digital Equipment Corporation.
Modified by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.

and the output is useless:

###### #
############ ###### #
## #### #### ##### ### ########## ########## ###
#### ### # # # #
########## ###### # ############### ############# #### # #### ##### #
############ ### #
## ###### ##### ####
##### ######### ########## #
## # ##### ################# #
## ##########
############### # ############### ####

   Both pstotext and ps2ascii used to work flawlessly. I cannot recall when
they stopped working, but it's a PITA that they have.

Thanks,

Rich

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