[Info-vax] GS convert PDF to PS.

[chris]

On 03/14/22 11:50, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Perhaps but the pdftops tool is probably command line and could be
called from a script. Just extract that and use it...

Chris