[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[Joukj]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-03-14 kl. 09:07, skrev 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
> 
> Many thanks for the links! Now, all these has a lot of "Other packages
> required" listed and I do not need/want all that "viewer" or X11 stuff.
> 
> Just a command line PDF to PS conversion tool without having to
> deal with X11, DECWindows or anything like that.
> 
> So if someone has a version of pdftops built for Alpha, I could be
> interested in a copy.
> 
> 

I put a a link to the binaries of the poppler utilities on my website 
for AXP (I will do Itanium later to day, no X86, because I do not have 
that yet)
http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html#POPPLER

      Jouk