

On other systems the executable may have a different name: The message shows for that version of the Ghostscript executable: You can get a brief help message by invoking Ghostscript with the Sections on options and devices for a more complete listing. The most important are described in detail here.

Many of them include " ="įollowed by a parameter. An option may appear anywhere in the command line, and applies to all files named after it on the line. The interpreter also quits gracefully if it encounters end-of-file or control-C. The -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE options in the examples above disable the interactive prompting. After processing the files given on the command line (if any) it reads further lines of PostScript language commands from the primary input stream, normally the keyboard, interpreting each line separately. The interpreter runs in interactive mode by default. The interpreter reads and executes the files in sequence, using the method described under " File searching" to find them.
#GHOSTSCRIPT PS TO PDF LETTERSIZE PORTABLE#
(EPS), DOS EPS (EPSF), and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Ghostscript is capable of interpreting PostScript, encapsulated PostScript You can use the 'ps2' set with eps files. These just call Ghostscript with the appropriate There are other utility scripts besides ps2pdf, including pdf2ps, ps2epsi, pdf2dsc, ps2asciiĪnd ps2ps. There are also a number of utility scripts for common dTextAlphaBits=4 -sOutputFile='paper-%00d.pgm' paper.ps Gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pgmraw -r150 \ Gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pnggrey -sOutputFile=figure.png figure.pdf Gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -r300 \ Gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 \ You'll be prompted to press return between pages. The details of how these work are described below. The command line to invoke Ghostscript isĮssentially the same on all systems, although the name of the executable Please refer to the documentation for those applications for using Ghostscript in other contexts. Ghostscript is also used as a general engine inside other applications (for viewing files for example).
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This document describes how to use the command line Ghostscript client.

Overview, the new user's documentation on
