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.TH PS2PDF 1 .SH NAME ps2pdf, pdf2ps \- convert between PostScript and PDF .SH SYNOPSIS .B ps2pdf [ .I gs-options ] [ .I input-file [ .I output-file ] ] .PP .B pdf2ps [ .I gs-options ] [ .I input-file [ .I output-file ] ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Ps2pdf and .I pdf2ps convert from PostScript to PDF and back by invoking .IR gs (1). If .I output-file is not specified, they write to standard output. If neither .I input-file nor .I output-file is not specified, they read from standard input and write to standard output. .PP The .I gs-options are passed to Ghostscript unaltered. The most useful option to .I ps2pdf is .BR -dCompatibilityLevel=\fIlevel , which sets the version of PDF to be written. The default is .BR 1.2 ; .B 1.3 and .B 1.4 are also possible. Similarly, the most useful option to .I pdf2ps is .BR -dLanguageLevel=\fIlevel , which sets the version of PostScript to be written. The default is .BR 2 ; .B 1 and .B 3 are also possible. .PP .I Ps2pdf produces output competitive with Adobe Distiller in most cases, and it accepts all the embedded PDF-generation hints that Adobe Distiller does. .PP .I Pdf2ps produces a PostScript file containing one large bitmap per page. For a more direct and smaller translation, use Adobe Acrobat's .B -toPostScript command-line option. .SH SOURCE .B /rc/bin/ps2pdf .br .B /rc/bin/pdf2ps .SH SEE ALSO .IR gs (1) .SH BUGS .IR Gs 's .I pdfwrite sometimes emits bad PDF at the default level 1.2. Adding .BR '-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4' should cure it.