[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.
Craig A. Berry
craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Sun Mar 13 19:00:22 EDT 2022
On 3/13/22 5:06 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-03-13 kl. 20:49, skrev gah4:
>> On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 8:13:12 AM UTC-7, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> I'm new to Ghostscript.
>>> I try to convert a PDF file to a PS file.
>>
>> PDF is a subset of PS, such that a PDF file can be converted to PS
>> without processing the actual data. That is, pdftops is a fairly
>> simple program.
>
> So what is "pdftops"? Do you have a link to that (for OpenVMS) ?
It appears to be part of XpdfReader rather than Ghostscript:
https://www.xpdfreader.com/pdftops-man.html
Once upon a time, it ran on VMS. There seems to be something about it
at VSI:
https://vmssoftware.com/openkits/i64opensource/VSI-I64VMS-XPDF-V0300-4B-1-RNOTES.PDF
Possibly there is still a version that runs on VMS.
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