[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[Joukj]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.

It is also included in POPPLER which is derived from XPDF

I got both of them compiled on my VMS systems
   see :
        http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#POPPLER
        http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#XPDF


Regards
    Jouk