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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!newsfeeder.gi.net!mr.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: postscript -> pbm converter?? Date: 25 Mar 1997 23:54:42 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.1-R), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 24 Message-ID: <slrn5jgpe2.5ar.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <3336d62e.1333150@netnews.hinet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38000 vcba79@ms1.hinet.net (Vincent Chen): > I am looking for a utility that can convert > postscript file into pbm format and this > program should be as small as possible. You are looking for ghostscript. I don't know whether it's small enough for your requirements at about 5MByte for the whole package. > Does this program exist or what resource > should I check out first? It is readily available as a package or can be found in the ports as print/ghostscript. The bigger part of the package is the fonts in /usr/local/lib/ghostscript, so depending on your needs you may be able to throw them away (certainly not recommended). Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)