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Ok, I know you all do six impossible things before breakfast, but I

don't do breakfast, so I can't do anything much at all. Which is why

I'm posting this, videlicet:



ASP.NET

VB.NET



*My* client receives a report from *his* client in Postscript format

(NOT PDF, probably LaTeX or something, anyway with a .ps extension).

The Third Party (the PS generator) flat out refuses to release the

report in anything other than .PS format. My client wants me to parse

this report (it looks like a badly designed Word table, BTW) and

extract the data, to be reformated into a new report.



As far as I can see the PS file is just a list of co-ordinates in no

very useful order. For example, there is a field "Consignor" with (I

guess) X and Y positions, but the data that appears in the Consignor

"box" is about 200 lines away. So it's not like I could parse the

file as a big string, find the word "Consignor" and be able to rely on

the next string being the associated datum.



Badly expressed, I know, but mine own. Anyone out there solved this

problem?



MTIA



Edward

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Hi Edward,



This group is a program language group, I would try it in a more document

newsgroup like Word.



Although there are a lot of people who visits this newsgroups who know a lot

of document, I give you a better chance in such a newsgroup.



I hope you have success



Cor





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* teddysnips@hotmail.com (Edward) scripsit:

Did you have a look at the specification for the file formats?



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