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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users back in the good old 7.07 ghostscript days... Post 302313460 by mr_manny on Tuesday 5th of May 2009 05:45:15 PM
Old 05-05-2009
back in the good old 7.07 ghostscript days...
back in the good old 7.07 ghostscript days...

we had Great results converting pdf to ps output, from the following command:

cat $stuff | /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -q -dNOPAUSE -r200 -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dPDFFitPage -dBATCH -sOutputFile=- - 2> /dev/null | /usr/bin/lp -d $printer


now we find ourselves w/Ghostscript 8.62, which doesn't like the earlier syntax.

my work around, is to convert the file from the pdf2ps script...then perform the print in a separate step.

it works, but the output file is THREE times the size of the earlier method.

The network team is going to demand some free lunches, unless I can get 8.62 to shead some bytes.

any assistance would be appreciated.




the pdf2ps script is as follows:
#!/bin/sh
# $Id: pdf2ps,v 1.5 2007/09/11 15:24:49 Arabidopsis Exp $
# Convert PDF to PostScript.

# This definition is changed on install to match the
# executable name set in the makefile
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/hpux32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
GS_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/gs
#gs="`dirname $0`/$GS_EXECUTABLE"
gs=$GS_EXECUTABLE
if test ! -x "$gs"; then
gs="$GS_EXECUTABLE"
fi
GS_EXECUTABLE=/usr/local/bin/gs

OPTIONS=""
while true
do
case "$1" in
-?*) OPTIONS="$OPTIONS $1" ;;
*) break ;;
esac
shift
done

if [ $# -eq 2 ]
then
outfile=$2
elif [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
outfile=`basename "$1" \.pdf`.ps
else
echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-dASCII85EncodePages=false] [-dLanguageLevel=1|2|3] input.pdf [output.ps]" 1>&2
exit 1
fi

# Doing an initial 'save' helps keep fonts from being flushed between pages.
# We have to include the options twice because -I only takes effect if it
# appears before other options.
exec "$GS_EXECUTABLE" $OPTIONS -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite "-sOutputFile=$outfile" $OPTIONS -c save pop -f "$1"
 

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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX

ps2pdf

PS2PDF(1)							    Ghostscript 							 PS2PDF(1)

NAME

       ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
       ps2pdf12 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
       ps2pdf13 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

SYNOPSIS

       ps2pdf  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf12  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf13  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]

DESCRIPTION

       The ps2pdf scripts are work-alikes for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) prod-
       uct: they convert PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

       If the output filename is not specified, the output is placed is a file of the same name with a '.pdf' extension. Either the input filename
       or the output filename can be '-' to request reading from stdin or writing to stdout, respectively, when used as a filter.

       The three scripts differ as follows:

       -      ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf  per se currently produces PDF 1.4 output.  However, this may change in the future. If you care about the compatibility level
	      of the output, use ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13, or use the -dCompatibility=1.x switch in the command line.

       There are some limitations in ps2pdf's conversion. See the HTML documentation for more information. A large number of  Adobe  Distiller(TM)
       parameters  which  can  be  used to control the conversion are also documented there, including instructions for generating PDF/X and PDF/A
       documents.

OPTIONS

       The ps2pdf scripts use the same options as gs(1).

EXAMPLES

       Converting a figure.ps to figure.pdf:

	      ps2pdf figure.ps

       A conversion with more specifics:

	      ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress figure.ps proof.pdf

       Converting as part of a pipe:

	      make_report.pl -t ps | ps2pdf -dCompatibility=1.3 - - | lpr

SEE ALSO

       gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
       Ps2pdf.htm in the Ghostscript documentation

BUGS

       See http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ and the Usenet news group comp.lang.postscript.

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.70.

AUTHOR

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.  This manpage by George Ferguson.

8.70								   31 July 2009 							 PS2PDF(1)
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