[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

On 03/13/2022 08:13 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm new to Ghostscript.
> I try to convert a PDF file to a PS file.
>
> And yes, this a step in the "print a PDF file" project.
> I had some issues with getting the Xerox printer to print
> a plain PDF file so I thought about converting i to to PS...
>
> Have tried with:
>
> $ gs "-dNOPAUSE" "-sDEVICE=ps2write" "-sOutputFile=out.ps" "-fOUT.PDF"
>
> The input file OUT.PDF only contains one page with 6-7 text lines
> and one Code128 barcode. File created from the Python tool Reportlab.
> And "out" refers to the Python step, it is the "input" file to GS.

>
> Jan-Erik.
>

I haven't seen the use of "-f" for the input file before but I tried it 
on a pdf and it worked but my pdf only had text, not a barcode. I have 
seen some "creative" methods in using fonts in both ps and pdf before. 
Does the command work for you if the pdf has only normal text using a 
simple font like Helvetica?

Jeff