Why postscript ?

[Warren Block]

There are three main advantages of PostScript:

Quality.
Resolution independence.
Device independence.

The importance of any of those depends on what is being printed.

Every now and then some bugger sends me a PS file in response to a
request for info. It's not such a hassle now because my second hand
HP4100 can print such files if I simply COPY them to PRN; but it was a
pain in the arse before I managed to get hold of a PS aware printer!

The experience has left me wondering if there is a "translator" that
will turn a PS file back into normal editable (or at least a PC
readable image) "text".[/QUOTE]

There's lots of things you can try:

Ghostscript itself can write out bitmaps. That doesn't really help in
terms of editing the original content. You could try OCR software.

Ghostscript comes with ps2ascii.

Ghostscript also has ps2pdf to make the PS file into a PDF. Then use
Acrobat Reader to copy either in graphic or text mode. Or try the PDF
importer for OpenOffice; I haven't tried it, can't say how well it might
work.