Bill Moseley scribbled on 3/4/05 9:06 AM:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:42:37PM -0800, Peter Karman wrote:
> 
>>I have had more success with the ps2ascii tool from Ghostscript and I wonder 
>>what others have found.
> 
> 
> Does it depend on Ghostscript being able to correctly render the PDF?

yep. the version I had under RedHat 9 worked when xpdf did not.

> Seems like ps2ascii/ps2text is not under active development so I
> wonder if it has problems with newer pdf docs.

ghostscript is under active development (ghostscript.com) and they have recent 
copies of pstotext (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm) and ps2ascii 
available. The latest version of ghostscript claims it handles PDF 1.4 and 1.5 
-- only testing will out, eh?



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