PSMERGE(1)

💖 PSMERGE(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the psmerge page — it's a General Commands Manual situation, and yes, it's giving ✨ niche but iconic ✨. Let's get into it.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

psmerge — it's a filter that merges a bunch of PostScript files into one single file. no cap, that's the whole job 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

psmerge [ -oout.ps ] file.ps ...

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So psmerge uses Ghostscript to merge PostScript documents into one single document. slay. 💅

BUT — and this is the part where you gotta pay attention — it only works in the very specific case where the files were created using the same application, with the same device setup and the same resources loaded (fonts, procsets, patterns, files, etc). that's it, that's the vibe. it's not a general-purpose merger, it's a very specific-situation girlie 🙈

If you use the -o option, the output gets sent to the file you named. If you don't, it goes to standard output instead. your call, bestie 💜

Also worth knowing: psmerge will merge multiple files concatenated into a single file as if they were in separate files. yes queen, it handles both shapes of the situation 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Angus J. C. Duggan. we stan. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• psutils(1) — go read the family tree, iykyk

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⭐ TRADEMARKS ⭐

PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. legally speaking, that's theirs, not ours 💀

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💀 BUGS 💀

okay so this is the important one: psmerge is for a very specific case. it does not merge files in the general case. periodt. don't come for it when it doesn't do the general thing, because it never claimed to 😭

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fr fr though — if your files came from different apps or different setups, this is not the tool, and no amount of manifesting will change that ✨

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