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) document "output.dsc" that conforms to Adobe's
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
".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.
SEE ALSO¶
gs(1), ghostview(1)
VERSION¶
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.06.
AUTHOR¶
Yves Arrouye <yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang gsview at
ghostgum.com.au