PS2PDF(1)PS2PDF(1)
NAME
ps2pdf, pdf2ps – convert between PostScript and PDF
SYNOPSIS
ps2pdf
[
gs-options
]
[
input-file
[
output-file
]
]
pdf2ps
[
gs-options
]
[
input-file
[
output-file
]
]
DESCRIPTION
Ps2pdf
and
pdf2ps
convert from PostScript to PDF and back by invoking
gs(1).
If
output-file
is not specified, they write to standard output.
If neither
input-file
nor
output-file
is not specified, they read from standard input and write to standard output.
The
gs-options
are passed to Ghostscript unaltered.
The most useful option to
ps2pdf
is
-dCompatibilityLevel=level,
which sets the version of PDF to be written.
The default is
1.2;
1.3
and
1.4
are also possible.
Similarly, the most useful option to
pdf2ps
is
-dLanguageLevel=level,
which sets the version of PostScript to be written.
The default is
2;
1
and
3
are also possible.
Ps2pdf
produces output competitive with
Adobe Distiller in most cases, and it
accepts all the embedded PDF-generation hints that Adobe Distiller does.
Pdf2ps
produces a PostScript file containing one large bitmap
per page. For a more direct and smaller translation,
use Adobe Acrobat’s
-toPostScript
command-line option.
SOURCE
/rc/bin/ps2pdf
/rc/bin/pdf2ps
SEE
gs(1)
BUGS
Gs’s
pdfwrite
sometimes emits bad PDF at the default level 1.2.
Adding
’-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4’
should cure it.