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-PS2PDF
-!!PS2PDF
-NAME
-SYNOPSIS
-DESCRIPTION
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+Note
! See our [CreatingPDFs] page for some tips when using ps2pdf.
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+!!!PS2PDF
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!!NAME
+ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to [PDF] using ghostscript
-ps2pdf - Convert !PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
ps2pdf12 - Convert !PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
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ps2pdf13 - Convert !PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
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!!SYNOPSIS
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+ __ps2pdf__ [[options...] (input.[[e]ps|-) [[output.pdf|-]
+ __ps2pdf12__ [[options...] (input.[[e]ps|-) [[output.pdf|-]
+ __ps2pdf13__ [[options...] (input.[[e]ps|-) [[output.pdf|-]
-__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.
+Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) product: they convert PostScript
+files to Portable Document Format ([
PDF]
) files.
The three scripts differ as follows:
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__ps2pdf12__ will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).
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__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.
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!!SEE ALSO
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gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
Ps2pdf.htm in the Ghostscript documentation [http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/7.04/Ps2pdf.htm]
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!!VERSION
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version
6.53.
-!!AUTHOR
+!!AUTHOR
L. Peter Deutsch
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