PS2PS(1)

💅 PS2PS — the manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, so this is the ps2ps / eps2eps situation — Ghostscript's very own PostScript "distiller" ✨ it's a Ghostscript Tools moment, and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ps2ps, eps2eps — Ghostscript PostScript "distiller" 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ps2ps [ options ] input output.ps
eps2eps [ options ] input output.eps

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so ps2ps is out here using gs(1) to take a PostScript(tm) or PDF(tm) file called input and turn it into simpler, normalized, and (usually) faster PostScript, which it drops into output.ps. and the glow-up doesn't stop there — the output is level 2 DSC 3.0 conforming PostScript. periodt. 👑

then there's eps2eps, which does the equivalent optimization but for Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files instead. 🦋

ok but real talk — NB: despite the name, your input does not have to be an EPS file. PostScript files are equally acceptable. PDF files too. literally nobody is gatekeeping the input format here. 🙈

and both of them? they accept any general Ghostscript command line options, plus the options that are specific to the ps2write and eps2write devices. so go off. 🔥

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📁 FILES 📁

run gs -h to find where the Ghostscript documentation lives on your system, and from there you can get more details. iykyk. 🧚

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• ps2pdf(1)
• ps2ascii(1)
• ps2epsi(1)

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

this document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0. 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. 🫶

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and that's the whole thing, bestie — brought to you by Ghostscript 10.04.0, dated 18 Sept 2024, filed under PS2PS(1). slay, no cap. 💅✨