PDF2DSC

PDF2DSC

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CAVEATS SEE ALSO VERSION AUTHOR

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 !PostScript(tm) document Document Structuring Conventions (DSC) requirements.

This new document simply tells Ghostscript to read the PDF file and to display pages one at a time. The generated document 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

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

SEE ALSO

gs(1), ghostview(1)?

VERSION

This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 6.53.

AUTHOR

Yves Arrouye