PDF2DSC(1) Ghostscript Tools PDF2DSC(1)NAMEpdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF docu
ment
SYNOPSISpdf2dsc input.pdf [ output.dsc ]
DESCRIPTIONpdf2dsc uses gs(1) to read an Adobe Portable Document For
mat (PDF) document "input.pdf" and create a PostScript(tm)
document "output.dsc" that conforms to Adobe's Document
Structuring Conventions (DSC) requirements.
This new document simply tells Ghostscript to read the PDF
file and to display pages one at a time. The generated
document can then be viewed with any PostScript viewer
based on Ghostscript, like ghostview(1) on Unix or GSview
on Windows, with which the user can browse through the
pages of the PDF document in any order.
If no output file is named on the command line, the name
of the output file is that of the input file with any
extension removed, followed by the extension ".dsc".
CAVEATS
The DSC document uses Ghostscript-specific procedures. In
addition, the original PDF document must be accessible
when the DSC document is processed.
You need the file "pdf2dsc.ps" (originally by Russell
Lang) supplied with Ghostscript since release 3.53.
SEE ALSOgs(1), ghostview(1)VERSION
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version
7.05.
AUTHOR
Yves Arrouye <yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang
<rjl@aladdin.com>
7.05 22 April 2002 PDF2DSC(1)
