PDF2PS(1)

🌸 PDF2PS(1) — the Ghostscript Tools glow-up 🌸

okay bestie, so you found pdf2ps and you're about to have a whole moment. it lives in the Ghostscript Tools family, and it is literally the translator that takes your PDF and hands you back PostScript. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

pdf2ps — the Ghostscript PDF-to-PostScript translator. that's it, that's the girl. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pdf2ps [ options ] input.pdf [output.ps]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: pdf2ps uses gs(1) under the hood to convert the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file input.pdf into PostScript(tm) inside output.ps. it's giving "glow-up but make it a file format." 🦋

normally, the output is allowed to use PostScript Level 2 constructs — but not PostScript LanguageLevel 3 constructs. so by default, Level 3 is not invited to the party, no cap.

if you want to change that:

• -dLanguageLevel=1 — this restricts the output to Level 1. keeping it old school, keeping it simple. 🌸
• -dLanguageLevel=3 — this allows using LanguageLevel 3 in the output. let her use the fancy constructs, periodt. 🔥

✨ FILES ✨

run gs -h to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your system, from which you can get more details. yes queen, go read the docs, they're right there. 📚✨

✨ VERSION ✨

this document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0. so if you're running something older, be aware you're reading the future, bestie. 🫶

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

fr fr, that's the whole page — nothing skipped, nothing made up. now go convert something and slay 💖

anyway, this was PDF2PS(1) from Ghostscript version 10.04.0, dated 18 Sept 2024, and yes, it was giving main character energy the entire time. bye bestie, go read a PDF 🦋💜