Note! See our CreatingPDFs page for some tips when using ps2pdf.

PS2PDF

NAME

ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript

ps2pdf12 - Convert !PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

ps2pdf13 - Convert !PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

SYNOPSIS

ps2pdf [options...? (input.[e?ps|-) [output.pdf? ps2pdf12 [options...? (input.[e?ps|-) [output.pdf? ps2pdf13 [options...? (input.[e?ps|-) [output.pdf?

DESCRIPTION

The ps2pdf scripts are work-alikes for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) product: they convert PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

The three scripts differ as follows:

• ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).
• ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).
• ps2pdf per se currently produces PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible). However, this may change in the future. If you care about the compatibility level of the output, use ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13, or use the -dCompatibility=1.x switch in the command line.

There are some limitations in ps2pdf's conversion. See the HTML documentation for more information.

SEE ALSO

gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1), Ps2pdf.htm in the Ghostscript documentation http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/7.04/Ps2pdf.htm

VERSION

This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 6.53.

AUTHOR

L. Peter Deutsch