Re: Viewing PS files on the console ?

[Kevin Sindhu <kevin@tgivan.com>]

Hi,

As someone said try ps2ascii, but I am kindda confused here,(correct me
if I am wrong).. ps2ascii uses gs to convert a file, but does'nt gs
require a X to be running(can be Xvfb- virtaul frame buffer)?

Thanks

-Kevin


Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To view a .ps file on X, we can use gv etc.  But suppose one doesn't have
> an X connection, and neither has a printer to get a printout of it, is
> there any way to view the .ps file on the console ?  I just need the
> contents of the ps file, and don't care abt the bold/italics/etc
> formatting.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> Regards,
> Rakhesh