From: Marc Tardif [intmktg@Gloria.CAM.ORG]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:10 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Can't get ghostscript 6.0 to create postscript file from
pdf.

On 4 Jan 2001, 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"
[ snip ]

GNU ghostscript comes with a utility called pdf2ps, which is actually a
shell script that I have pasted below. If you actually decide to use this
script, beware of long lines which might have been split with a newline
by either of our mail/news clients. Hope it works on the Alladin version
too.

#!/bin/sh
# $Id: pdf2ps $
# Convert PDF to PostScript.

OPTIONS=""
while true
do
        case "$1" in
        -*) OPTIONS="$OPTIONS $1" ;;
        *)  break ;;
        esac
        shift
done

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
        echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-dPSBinaryOK] [-dPSLevel1] [-dPSNoProcSet] input.pdf output.ps" 1>&2
        exit 1
fi

# Doing an initial 'save' helps keep fonts from being flushed between pages.
exec gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=$2 $OPTIONS -c save pop -f $1