From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Anyone have code to strip text from HP-PCL5 files?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 05:11:46 GMT
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I know there are programs (e.g., pstotext) to strip text from
Postscript files, but has anyone got any code to do the same thing for
HP-PCL5 files?

Alternatively, are there any editors or word processors that
understand HP-PCL5, and can present an on-screen image of the text
that the printer would produce, maybe with an option to save-as a
simple text file (i.e., with the PCL5 codes stripped out)?

TIA for any help, info or url's you can provide.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT nospam DOT dorsai DOT org OR
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