[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <t0l1m4$7a5$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> 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"

This works for me:

$  IF P1 .EQS. "" THEN GOTO USAGE
$  IF F$PARSE(P1,,,"TYPE") .EQS. "." THEN P1 = P1 + ".PDF"
$  IF P2 .EQS. "" THEN P2 = F$PARSE(P1,,,"NAME") + ".PS"
$  IF F$PARSE(P2,,,"TYPE") .EQS. "." THEN P2 = P2 + ".PS"
$  GS "-dNOPAUSE" "-sDEVICE=pswrite" "-dBATCH" "-sOutputFile=''P2'" 'P1'
$  EXIT
$USAGE:
$  TYPE SYS$INPUT

P1: PDF file (required), default type .PDF
P2: PostScript file (optional), default type .PS, default name <name_of_P1>.PS
$  EXIT