pdfopt(1) [redhat man page]

PDFOPT(1)							 Ghostscript Tools							 PDFOPT(1)

NAME

       pdfopt - Ghostscript PDF Optimizer

SYNOPSIS

       pdfopt [ options ] input.pdf output.pdf

DESCRIPTION

       pdfopt  uses  gs(1)  to	convert  the  Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file "input.pdf" to a so-called optimized form in "output.pdf".
       Optimization puts the elements of the file into a more linear order and adds "hint" pointers, allowing Adobe's Acrobat(TM) products to dis-
       play individual pages of the file more quickly when accessing the file through a network.

       Note:  input.pdf  and  output.pdf must not be the same.	If they are, the file will probably be destroyed.  pdfopt currently does not check
       for this.

FILES

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

SEE ALSO

       "Linearized PDF" in Adobe's PDF reference manual, http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 7.05.

AUTHOR

       L. Peter Deutsch <ghost@aladdin.com>

7.05								   22 April 2002							 PDFOPT(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 7.05.

AUTHOR

       L. Peter Deutsch <ghost@aladdin.com> was the original author.   The  current  version  has  substantial	improvements  by  David  M.  Jones
       <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu>.

7.05								   22 April 2002						       PS2ASCII(1)