PDF2DSC
Section: Ghostscript Tools (1)
Updated: 1 October 2020
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NAME
pdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document
SYNOPSIS
pdf2dsc input.pdf [
output.dsc ]
DESCRIPTION
pdf2dsc uses
gs(1) to read an Adobe
Portable Document
Format (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 ALSO
gs(1),
ghostview(1)
VERSION
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.53.3.
AUTHOR
Yves Arrouye <
yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang gsview at ghostgum.com.au