From: Helge Blischke [H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:32 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Can't get ghostscript 6.0 to create postscript file from
pdf.

Mark London wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get ghostscript 6.0 to create a postscript file from pdf.  I do
> the following:
> 
> $  gs "-dNODISPLAY"  "-sOutputFile=abc.xyz" example.pdf "-dBATCH" "-dNOPAUSE"
> Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0 (2000-02-03)
> Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Processing pages 1 through 1.
> Page 1
> 
> No abc.xyz is created.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks.

Replace the "-dNODISPLAY" by "-sDEVICE=pswrite".

Helge

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