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pdf2dsc (1)

Name

pdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document

Synopsis

pdf2dsc input.pdf [ output.dsc ]

Description




Ghostscript Tools                                      PDF2DSC(1)



NAME
     pdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document

SYNOPSIS
     pdf2dsc input.pdf [ output.dsc ]

DESCRIPTION
     pdf2dsc uses gs(1) to read an Adobe Portable Document Format
     (PDF) document "input.pdf" and create a PostScript(tm) docu-
     ment  "output.dsc"  that conforms to Adobe's Document Struc-
     turing Conventions (DSC) requirements.

     This new document simply tells Ghostscript to read  the  PDF
     file and to display pages one at a time.  The generated doc-
     ument can then be viewed with any PostScript viewer based on
     Ghostscript, like ghostview(1) on Unix or GSview on Windows,
     with which the user can browse through the pages of the  PDF
     document in any order.

     If  no output file is named on the command line, the name of
     the output file is that of the input file with any extension
     removed, followed by the extension ".dsc".

CAVEATS
     The  DSC  document uses Ghostscript-specific procedures.  In
     addition, the original PDF document must be accessible  when
     the DSC document is processed.

     You  need the file "pdf2dsc.ps" (originally by Russell Lang)
     supplied with Ghostscript since release 3.53.


ATTRIBUTES
     See  attributes(5)  for  descriptions   of   the   following
     attributes:

     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Availability   | print/filter/ghostscript |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Stability      | Volatile                 |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
     gs(1), ghostview(1)

VERSION
     This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.00.

AUTHOR
     Yves Arrouye <yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang  gsview
     at ghostgum.com.au



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Ghostscript Tools                                      PDF2DSC(1)



NOTES
     This   software   was   built   from   source  available  at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The   original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-9.00.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on  the
     open source community website at http://ghostscript.com/.















































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