PSRIP(1)

📦 version 1.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 PSRIP 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation set — yes, that's the manual name, we're not making it up — and it's about a lil script called psrip that yoinks images out of postscript files. it's giving extraction. it's giving "I found the pictures hiding in your .ps". slay.

✨ NAME ✨

psrip — extracts images from postscript-files 🦋

like literally that's the whole job. it pulls the pics out.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

psrip [-d dir] psfile(s)

extract images in psfile(s) into the current directory, or into dir if you gave one. that's it, that's the vibe. 💅

🎀 Examples 🎀

  • psrip foil.ps Extract images from foil.ps into current directory. no flags, no fuss, just vibes. ✨
  • psrip -d images foil1.ps foil2.ps TeX/*.ps Extract images of these ps-files into directory images. look at you globbing like a main character. 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

ngl the whole thing is kind of iconic in how simple it is. the script saves the lines between %%BeginDocument: name and %%EndDocument to a new file named dir/name. that's the entire trick. it reads the postscript, finds those marker lines, and copies everything in between out into a fresh file. periodt. 💫

😭 BUGS 😭

ok so here's the thing, bestie, and I need you to actually listen: if there is no BoundingBox specified in the extracted image, you have to insert it by hand. no cap. the script will not do it for you. 💀

e.g. for DIN-a4 size:

 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842

so yeah, that's on you. 🙈

fr fr check your extracted image before you go printing anything, or you're gonna have a bad time.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Christian Lackas <delta@clackas.de>, 10 December 1999. ✨

This tool is dedicated to Nikolay 'Snake' Sturm. 🐍💖 (that's so sweet actually, I'm not crying, you're crying 😭)

Thanks to Rolf Niepraschk for his help in publishing an bug reporting.

👑 LICENSE 👑

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the 15/Dec/1999 edition, built against perl 5.005, patch 03, and honestly? ahead of its time. go extract some images. mwah. 💋🎀✨

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