PS2PDFWR(1)

💖 PS2PDFWR(1) — the Ghostscript bestie that turns your PostScript into PDF 💖

okay so. bestie. this is ps2pdfwr, a lil wrapper script from the Ghostscript fam. her whole thing? converting PostScript into PDF — but like, without specifying a CompatibilityLevel. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ps2pdfwr — Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying CompatibilityLevel, using ghostscript

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ps2pdfwr [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so what's actually happening under the hood? this wrapper script invokes gs(1) with the following arguments:

-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite

plus the appropriate -dOutputFile argument — and all of that is preceded and followed by any command-line arguments you threw at it. the vibes are symmetrical, we love to see it. 💅

and finally, the security option -dSAFER gets prepended before all the other options. lowkey tho — this is now redundant, because "SAFER" is now the default. but the option does no harm, so she stays. iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

the version-specific ps2pdf scripts all invoke this one with the addition of the respective compatibility level option. so she's basically the main character and the others are just showing up with extra flags. main character energy fr fr. ✨

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• gs(1)
• ps2pdf(1)

💜 VERSION 💜

This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. This manpage by George Ferguson.

ok that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💖 now go convert something. iykyk.

version 10.04.0 · 18 Sept 2024 · made with love, PDFs, and zero CompatibilityLevel 🎀✨