ps2ps(1) [opensolaris man page]

PS2PS(1)							 Ghostscript Tools							  PS2PS(1)

NAME

       ps2ps, eps2eps - Ghostscript PostScript "distiller"

SYNOPSIS

       ps2ps [ options ] input.ps output.ps
       eps2eps [ options ] input.eps output.eps

DESCRIPTION

       ps2ps uses gs(1) to convert PostScript(tm) file "input.ps" to simpler, normalized and (usually) faster PostScript in "output.ps".  Normally
       the output is allowed to use PostScript Level 2 or Level 3 constructs, but the -dLanguageLevel=1 option restricts the output to Level 1.

       eps2eps performs the equivalent optimization for Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files.

       Both accept any general Ghostscript command line options, and respectively options specific to the pswrite and epswrite devices.

FILES

       Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your system, from which you can get more details.

BUGS

       The pswrite device used by both ps2ps and eps2eps produces much lower level output than is desirable. Use with caution.

SEE ALSO

       ps2pdf(1), ps2ascii(1), ps2epsi(1)

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.63.

AUTHOR

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.

8.63								   1 August 2008							  PS2PS(1)

PS2ASCII(1)							 Ghostscript Tools						       PS2ASCII(1)

NAME

       ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII

SYNOPSIS

       ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
       ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]

DESCRIPTION

       ps2ascii  uses  gs(1) to extract ASCII text from PostScript(tm) or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. If no files are specified on
       the command line, gs reads from standard input; but PDF input must come from an explicitly-named file, not standard input.   If	no  output
       file is specified, the ASCII text is written to standard output.

       ps2ascii  doesn't  look at font encoding, and isn't very good at dealing with kerning, so for PostScript (but not currently PDF), you might
       consider pstotext (see below).

FILES

       Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your system, from which you can get more details.

SEE ALSO

       pstotext(1), http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.63.

AUTHOR

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.  David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made  substantial  improve-
       ments to ps2ascii.

8.63								   1 August 2008						       PS2ASCII(1)