DVIPDF(1)

💖 NAME 💖

dvipdf — bestie, this one takes your TeX DVI file and turns it into a PDF, using ghostscript and dvips behind the scenes 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dvipdf [ options ] input.dvi [ output.pdf ] ...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the tea, this script does NOT do the heavy lifting itself. It's giving project manager energy 💅 — it calls up dvips(1) with the -q option, then pipes whatever dvips spits out straight into gs(1).

And when it hands stuff to gs(1), it's passing these bad boys along:

-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite

plus -sOutputFile, plus any options you threw at it from the command line. So like, you say jump, it says how high, and then it makes a PDF. 👑

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• gs(1)
• dvips(1)

💜 VERSION 💜

This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0. Yes bestie, we keep it updated, we're not messy. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript — they're the main characters here, fr fr. This manpage was written by George Ferguson. Respect the author, periodt. 🫶

Ghostscript 10.04.0, dated 18 Sept 2024 — that's the version and date on the tin, bestie. Go forth and convert your DVI files, you absolute icon. 💖✨🌈