[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-03-14 kl. 10:35, skrev 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

That was kind! I will try that pdftops utility later today.

Thanks!

Jan-Erik.