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author | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-12-29 15:26:56 +0800 |
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committer | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-12-29 15:26:56 +0800 |
commit | c1b7453a6d55d2aa26a89aafd1c7c58ead2128d5 (patch) | |
tree | 01cc35c59f48d2835aba06e76e679627b0ba7ce6 /print/pstotext/pkg-descr | |
parent | c01c11786880242729227c7402feb174fb312f60 (diff) | |
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Moving the pstotext port from textproc to print.
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diff --git a/print/pstotext/pkg-descr b/print/pstotext/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..caf558260e62 --- /dev/null +++ b/print/pstotext/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +pstotext reads one or more PostScript or PDF files, and writes to standard +output a representation of the plain text that would be displayed if the +PostScript file were printed. As is described in the DETAILS section below, +this representation is only an approximation. Nevertheless, it is often +useful for information retrieval (e.g., running grep(1) or building a +full-text index) or to recover the text from a PostScript file whose source +you have lost. + +pstotext calls Ghostscript, and requires Aladdin Ghostscript version 3.51 or +newer. Ghostscript must be invokable on the current search path as gs. +Alternatively, you can use the -gs option to specify the command (pathname +and options) to run Ghostscript. For example, on Windows you might use -gs +"c:\gs\gswin32c.exe -Ic:\gs;c:\gs\fonts". + +pstotext reads and processes its command line from left to right, ignoring +the case of options. When it encounters a pathname, it opens the file and +expects to find a PostScript job or PDF document to process. The option - +means to read and process a PostScript job from standard input. If no - or +pathname arguments are encountered, pstotext reads a PostScript job from +standard input. (PDF documents require random access, hence cannot be read +from standard input.) You can use the -output option to specify an output file +(remember to invoke it before the input file); otherwise pstotext writes to +standard output. + +The option -cork is only relevant for PostScript files produced by dvips from +TeX or LaTeX documents; it tells pstotext to use the Cork encoding (known as T1 +in LaTeX) rather than the old TeX text encoding (known as OT1 in LaTeX). +Unfortunately files produced by dvips don't distinguish which font encodings +were used. + +The options -landscape and -landscapeOther should be used for documents that +must be rotated 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise, respectively, in +order to be readable. + +The options -debug and -bboxes are mostly of use for the maintainers of +pstotext. -debug shows Ghostscript output and error messages. -bboxes outputs +one word per line with bounding box information. + +WWW: http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/manpages/pstotext.1.html |