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Old 10-16-2010
conversion from ps to pdf
My folder contains many files with .ps extensions. How to convert all of these to .pdf at a time using a shell script /command.

Help me.
Last edited by hravisankar; 10-17-2010 at 02:14 AM.. Reason: Corrected
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Old 10-16-2010
If you have ghostscript installed:

Code:
fonts=-I/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
gs $fonts -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=file.pdf file.ps

reads file.ps and writes file.pdf; change those as you need to.
The fonts may be in a different location on your host.
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