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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Creating a PostScript File Post 302604037 by abhisheksunkari on Friday 2nd of March 2012 03:32:11 PM
Old 03-02-2012
Error Creating a PostScript File

Hi All,
I have a requirement, where i have create a pdf file in unix. I have gone through few links and understood that it could be done in 2 step manner.
- Create a .ps PostScript file.
- Pass .ps file to p2pdf command to create the pdf.

But i am having trouble creating the .ps file. I have learned that a2ps is the command to create it.
But in my setup, the shell does nt recognize the a2ps command, but it does have a man page.
Not sure what i am missing here, can someone please let me know what the problem is?

Also is there a better way to create a pdf file in unix.

Thank you in advance,

Regards,
Abhishek S.
 

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Image::ExifTool::WritePostScript(3)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Image::ExifTool::WritePostScript(3)

NAME
Image::ExifTool::WritePostScript.pl - Write PostScript meta information SYNOPSIS
This file is autoloaded by Image::ExifTool::PostScript. DESCRIPTION
This file contains routines to write meta information in PostScript documents. Six forms of meta information may be written: 1) PostScript comments (Adobe DSC specification) 2) XMP information embedded in a document-level XMP stream 3) EXIF information embedded in a Photoshop record 4) IPTC information embedded in a PhotoShop record 5) ICC_Profile information embedded in an ICCProfile record 6) TIFF information embedded in DOS-style binary header NOTES
Currently, information is written only in the outter-level document. Photoshop will discard meta information in a PostScript document if it has to rasterize the image, and it will rasterize anything that doesn't contain the Photoshop-specific 'ImageData' tag. So don't expect Photoshop to read any meta information added to EPS images that it didn't create. The following two acronyms may be confusing since they are so similar and have different meanings with respect to PostScript documents: DSC = Document Structuring Conventions DCS = Desktop Color Separation REFERENCES
See references in PostScript.pm, plus: <http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf> http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/PLRM2.pdf <http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/PLRM2.pdf> <http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/pdf/pdf_creation_apis_and_specs/pdfmarkReference.pdf> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Tim Kordick for his help testing the EPS writer. AUTHOR
Copyright 2003-2010, Phil Harvey (phil at owl.phy.queensu.ca) This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Image::ExifTool::PostScript(3pm), Image::ExifTool(3pm) perl v5.12.1 2010-02-17 Image::ExifTool::WritePostScript(3)
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