[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <t0lf67$k00$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> Den 2022-03-13 kl. 18:17, skrev 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
> > 
> 
> Intreresting.
> "pswrite" is not part of the "Available devices:" but ps2write is.
> 
> I tried to change to "pswrite" and got:
> 
> GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0 (2021-09-27)
> Copyright (C) 2021 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
> see the file COPYING for details.
> Unknown device: pswrite
> %SYSTEM-E-BADPARAM, bad parameter value

$ gs -v
GPL Ghostscript 9.02 (2011-03-30)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.

OK, I need to upgrade.  :-(  But one reason I hesitate is because some 
things might stop working.  :-|