PostScript tools

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epsutil
lptops
psposter
prescript
print-ps-twoside

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epsutil

epsutil: Encapsulated PostScript utility

documentation: epsutil
source distribution: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/misc/index.html#epsutil

lptops

lptops: line printer text to PostScript converter

documentation: lptops
source distribution: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/misc/index.html#lptops

psposter

psposter: create simple one-page colored posters in PostScript

documentation: psposter
source distribution: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/misc/index.html#psposter

prescript

prescript: extract plain text or HTML from a PostScript file

prescript is a product of the New Zealand Digital Library Project, and is described in detail in a most interesting published paper

Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Todd Reed, and Ian H. Witten, Extracting Text from PostScript, Software---Practice and Experience 28(5), 481--491 (1998). http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext?ID=1792&PLACEBO=IE.pdf (full text in Acrobat PDF form) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract?ID=1792 (abstract)

Warning: The journal publisher URLs will only be accessible if you have a personal subscription to that journal, or if you belong to an institution with a library subscription (most universities should).

I strongly recommend this utility; it should be available at every PostScript-using site!

documentation: prescript manual pages
source distribution: http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/gw?c=cstr&a=page&p=Prescript&z=x-Dw2aww
Additional files that I've contributed back to the prescript developers, but may not yet be available from their Web site:

print-ps-twoside

print-ps-twoside: line printer text to PostScript converter

documentation: print-ps-oneside and print-ps-twoside
source distribution: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/misc/index.html#print-ps-twoside