EXTRACTRES(1)

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version 3.3.17 · 9 versions
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✨ EXTRACTRES(1) ✨

okay bestie, so extractres is this iconic little tool from the psutils gang, and honestly? it's giving backstage-pass energy for your PostScript files 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

extractres — the resource-wrangling bestie you didn't know you needed 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

extractres [OPTION...] [INFILE [OUTFILE]]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So like, extractres goes into a PostScript document and extracts all the resources just chilling in there — we're talking fonts, procsets, patterns, files, etc. 🧚 Then it drops the appropriate %%IncludeResource comments into the document prologue. Periodt.

The extracted resources get written out to files with the same name as the resource, plus an appropriate extension. Cute, right? 🎀

And then there's this pipeline, which is literally the main character:

extractres file.ps | includeres >out.ps

That one moves all the resources appearing in a document up into the document prologue and clears out the redundant copies. Obsessed. 💖 Once you've done that, your output file can safely go through page re-arrangement filters like psnup or pstops. Slay.

Bottom line: extract resources from a PostScript document.

  • INFILE — if it's -, or if you just don't pass an INFILE at all, it reads from standard input 🫶
  • OUTFILE — and if it's -, or you don't pass an OUTFILE, it writes to standard output ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -m, --merge — merges resources with the same name into one file. lowkey needed, ngl, like for fonts that get output in multiple blocks 🔥
  • -v, --version — shows the program's version number and exits. short and sweet 💖
  • -q, --quiet — don't show progress. no commentary, just vibes 🤫

👑 AUTHOR 👑

(no author listed in this one, bestie — the page goes straight from OPTIONS to BUGS 💀)

💀 BUGS 💀

extractres does not alter the %%DocumentSuppliedResources comments. that's it, that's the bug. not me being the bearer of bad news 😭

🫶 heads up bestie: the %%DocumentSuppliedResources comment thing is a real limitation, so don't count on extractres to fix those up for you — it won't touch 'em, fr fr.

and that's the whole page, bestie — this one comes from psutils version 3.3.17, dated 2026-09-08. mwah 💋 go extract some resources, you've got this 💜

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