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91 lines
1.5 KiB
Plaintext
.TH PS2PDF 1
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.SH NAME
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ps2pdf, pdf2ps \- convert between PostScript and PDF
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B ps2pdf
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[
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.I gs-options
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]
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[
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.I input-file
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[
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.I output-file
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]
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]
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.PP
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.B pdf2ps
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[
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.I gs-options
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]
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[
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.I input-file
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[
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.I output-file
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]
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]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Ps2pdf
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and
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.I pdf2ps
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convert from PostScript to PDF and back by invoking
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.IR gs (1).
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If
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.I output-file
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is not specified, they write to standard output.
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If neither
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.I input-file
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nor
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.I output-file
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is not specified, they read from standard input and write to standard output.
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.PP
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The
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.I gs-options
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are passed to Ghostscript unaltered.
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The most useful option to
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.I ps2pdf
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is
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.BR -dCompatibilityLevel=\fIlevel ,
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which sets the version of PDF to be written.
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The default is
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.BR 1.2 ;
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.B 1.3
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and
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.B 1.4
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are also possible.
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Similarly, the most useful option to
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.I pdf2ps
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is
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.BR -dLanguageLevel=\fIlevel ,
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which sets the version of PostScript to be written.
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The default is
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.BR 2 ;
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.B 1
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and
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.B 3
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are also possible.
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.PP
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.I Ps2pdf
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produces output competitive with
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Adobe Distiller in most cases, and it
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accepts all the embedded PDF-generation hints that Adobe Distiller does.
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.PP
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.I Pdf2ps
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produces a PostScript file containing one large bitmap
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per page. For a more direct and smaller translation,
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use Adobe Acrobat's
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.B -toPostScript
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command-line option.
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.SH SOURCE
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.B /rc/bin/ps2pdf
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.br
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.B /rc/bin/pdf2ps
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.IR gs (1)
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.SH BUGS
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.IR Gs 's
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.I pdfwrite
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sometimes emits bad PDF at the default level 1.2.
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Adding
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.BR '-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4'
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should cure it.
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