Ghostscript Tools                                      PDF2DSC(1)



NAME
     pdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document

SYNOPSIS
     pdf2dsc input.pdf [ output.dsc ]

DESCRIPTION
     pdf2dsc uses gs(1) to read an Adobe Portable Document Format
     (PDF) document "input.pdf" and create a PostScript(tm) docu-
     ment "output.dsc" that conforms to Adobe's  Document  Struc-
     turing Conventions (DSC) requirements.

     This new document simply tells Ghostscript to read  the  PDF
     file  and  to  display  pages  one at a time.  The generated
     document can then be viewed with any PostScript viewer based
     on  Ghostscript, like ghostview(1) on Unix or GSview on Win-
     dows, with which the user can browse through  the  pages  of
     the PDF document in any order.

     If no output file is named on the command line, the name  of
     the output file is that of the input file with any extension
     removed, followed by the extension ".dsc".

CAVEATS
     The DSC document uses Ghostscript-specific  procedures.   In
     addition,  the original PDF document must be accessible when
     the DSC document is processed.

     You need the file "pdf2dsc.ps" (originally by Russell  Lang)
     supplied with Ghostscript since release 3.53.

SEE ALSO
     gs(1), ghostview(1)

VERSION
     This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.63.

AUTHOR
     Yves Arrouye  and Russell Lang  gsview
     at ghostgum.com.au















8.63               Last change: 1 August 2008                   1