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**PostScript conversion to plain ASCII or HTML.**\\ | **PostScript conversion to plain ASCII or HTML.**\\ | ||
- | PreScript is really a PostScript to plain text converter, but rudimentary HTML can also be produced. Tags are inserted to mark paragraphs (< | + | PreScript is really a PostScript to plain text converter, but rudimentary HTML can also be produced. Tags are inserted to mark paragraphs (< |
**Paragraph boundaries detection.**\\ | **Paragraph boundaries detection.**\\ | ||
- | PreScript determines the line spacing of a document and uses this (and also indentations) to determine paragraph boundaries. | + | PreScript determines the line spacing of a document and uses this (and also indentations) to determine paragraph boundaries. |
**Hyphenation removal.**\\ | **Hyphenation removal.**\\ | ||
- | Hyphenated words are de-hyphenated. | + | Hyphenated words are de-hyphenated. |
**Ligature translation.**\\ | **Ligature translation.**\\ | ||
- | Most ligatures used by TeX document are detected. PreScript doesn' | + | Most ligatures used by TeX document are detected. PreScript doesn' |
- | Installing PreScript | + | =====Installing PreScript===== |
- | PreScript is written in PostScript and Python. You will need Ghostscript (at least version 4.01) and the Python interpreter (at least version 1.4.). | + | PreScript is written in PostScript and Python. You will need [[http:// |
- | The PreScript 0.1 distribution | + | ====The PreScript 0.1 distribution==== |
This distribution is the most stable - it is what you should use to do real work. | This distribution is the most stable - it is what you should use to do real work. | ||
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- | Define the environment variable PRESCRIPT_DIR to the directory where PreScript is installed (or where ever you put prescript.ps). | + | |
- | Move prescript.py to a directory listed in your PATH environment variable. You may want to remove the .py suffix (prescript.py can be either a standalone program, or an imported library of another Python program). | + | |
- | Change #! / | + | |
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- | The PreScript 2 distribution | + | |
- | This is a beta release of our latest version. This version is a lot cleaner and faster; it is also extensible (users can write their own renderers), better documented, and contains better prediction of line, paragraph, and page breaks. If you notice any bugs, want to request new features, or want to become a beta tester please email the New Zealand Digital Library administrator. | + | |
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- | Download a PreScript 2 distribution (the later versions are more stable). | + | |
- | | + | ====The |
- | | + | This is a beta release of our latest version. This version is a lot cleaner and faster; it is also extensible (users can write their own renderers), better documented, and contains better prediction of line, paragraph, and page breaks. |
- | PreScript 2.2 -- same as Prescript 2.1 but compatibility issues with python 1.5 have been fixed | + | |
- | On unix systems 'make install' | + | * Download a PreScript 2 distribution |
- | If not installing with the make utility: | + | |
- | It is easiest if all of the program scripts | + | |
- | Change # | + | |
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
- | Running PreScript | + | * On unix systems 'make install' |
- | Usage: | + | * If not installing with the make utility: |
+ | * It is easiest if all of the program scripts are kept in the same directory, which ideally should be listed in the PATH environment variable. If this is inconvenient, | ||
+ | * Change # | ||
- | prescript format input [output] | + | =====Running PreScript===== |
- | | + | < |
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+ | * format is either plain or html. | ||
+ | * input is the input filename, a PostScript file. | ||
+ | * output is the output filename. By default, the output file name is the same as the input filename with the path removed and suffix replace to either .txt or .html. | ||
- | Bugs | ||
- | Please report bugs to the New Zealand Digital Library administrator. | ||
- | Notes | + | =====Notes===== |
- | PreScript is a port of a Perl program used by the New Zealand Digital Library project to convert computer science technical reports to HTML. The Perl version is deemed unfit for a public release because the code is quite messy (a consequence of Perl's cumbersome syntax for defining objects). The Python version is considerably easier to understand, maintain, and extend. The technical paper prescript.ps.gz documents the algorithms and heuristics used in PreScript 0.1 - there is an update to this for PreScript 2 inside its distribution archive. | + | PreScript is a port of a Perl program used by the New Zealand Digital Library project to convert computer science technical reports to HTML. The Perl version is deemed unfit for a public release because the code is quite messy (a consequence of Perl's cumbersome syntax for defining objects). The Python version is considerably easier to understand, maintain, and extend. The technical paper [[http:// |
- | Other Postscript Converters | + | =====Other Postscript Converters===== |
Here is a summary of other PostScript to text converters we found. | Here is a summary of other PostScript to text converters we found. | ||
- | pstotext | + | **[[http:// |
- | From the DEC Virtual Paper research project. PostScript program and C program. Probably the best PostScript to text converter (after PreScript, of course). | + | From the DEC Virtual Paper research project. PostScript program and C program. Probably the best PostScript to text converter (after PreScript, of course). |
- | ps2html, The Sequel | + | **[[http:// |
- | Developed at Johns Hopkins University to convert JHU journal articles to HTML. This converter attempts to preserve the formatting of the original PostScript document, but is tied to PostScript files generated with a specific package (QuarkXPress? | + | Developed at Johns Hopkins University to convert JHU journal articles to HTML. This converter attempts to preserve the formatting of the original PostScript document, but is tied to PostScript files generated with a specific package (QuarkXPress? |
- | ps2ascii.ps | + | **ps2ascii.ps**\\ |
- | Part of the Ghostscript distribution. ps2ascii.ps is considerably less robust than PreScript. | + | Part of the Ghostscript distribution. ps2ascii.ps is considerably less robust than PreScript. |
- | ps2a.sh | + | **[[ftp:// |
- | A PostScript program similar to Ghostscript' | + | A PostScript program similar to Ghostscript' |
- | ps2ascii.shar | + | **[[ftp:// |
- | A PostScript program and Perl script. | + | A PostScript program and Perl script. |
- | ps2ascii.pl | + | **[[ftp:// |
- | A Perl script that extracts parenthesized text from a PostScript file. | + | A Perl script that extracts parenthesized text from a PostScript file. \\ |
- | ps2txt | + | **[[ftp:// |
- | A standalone C program that extracts parenthesized text. Some special code to deal with dvips generated files. | + | A standalone C program that extracts parenthesized text. Some special code to deal with dvips generated files. |
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