PDF2DSC(1)

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

SYNOPSIS
pdf2dsc pdffile [ dscfile ]

DESCRIPTION
pdf2dsc reads a Portable Document Format (PDF) document pdffile and creates a PostScript document dscfile that conforms to Adobe's Document Structuring 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) or GSView, which will let the user browse through the pages of the PDF document in any order.

If the output document name dscfile is not given on the command line, the name used is pdffile with any extension removed, followed by a .dsc extension.

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

You need the pdf2dsc.ps file (originally by Russell Lang) that comes with Ghostscript releases 3.53 and higher and a corresponding Ghostscript interpreter.

DOCUMENTATION
Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>

SEE ALSO
gs(1), ghostview(1)