PDF2DSC(1)							 Ghostscript Tools							PDF2DSC(1)

NAME

       pdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document

SYNOPSIS

       pdf2dsc input.pdf [ output.dsc ]

DESCRIPTION

       pdf2dsc	uses  gs(1) to read an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) document "input.pdf" and create a PostScript(tm) document "output.dsc"
       that conforms to Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions (DSC) requirements.

       This new document simply tells Ghostscript to read the PDF file and to display pages one at a time.  The generated  document  can  then	be
       viewed  with  any  PostScript  viewer  based on Ghostscript, like ghostview(1) on Unix or GSview on Windows, with which the user can browse
       through the pages of the PDF document in any order.

       If no output file is named on the command line, the name of the output file is that of the input file with any extension removed,  followed
       by the extension ".dsc".

CAVEATS

       The  DSC document uses Ghostscript-specific procedures.	In addition, the original PDF document must be accessible when the DSC document is
       processed.

       You need the file "pdf2dsc.ps" (originally by Russell Lang) supplied with Ghostscript since release 3.53.

SEE ALSO

       gs(1), ghostview(1)

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 7.05.

AUTHOR

       Yves Arrouye <yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang <rjl@aladdin.com>

7.05								   22 April 2002							PDF2DSC(1)