[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-03-14 kl. 11:56, skrev jouk:
> On 14/03/2022 11:27, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Note that the XPDF istribution of VSI also co ntains the pdftops tool:
> https://vmssoftware.com/openkits/alpopensource/VSI-AXPVMS-XPDF-V0300-4B-1-RNOTES.PDF 
> 
> 
> 

Yes, I saw that. But I was somewhat put off by the requirements for
an ODS-5 system disk, Motif and DECWindows. No need for any of that.