ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.  This manpage by George Ferguson.

10.04.0                                           18 Sept 2024                                         PS2PDF(1)

       See http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ and the Usenet news group comp.lang.postscript.

       The  ps2pdf  scripts  are  work-alikes  for  nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of
       Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) product: they convert PostScript  files  to  Portable  Document  Format
       (PDF) files.

       If  the  output  filename is not specified, the output is placed in a file of the same name with a '.pdf'
       extension in the current working directory.  Either the input filename or the output filename can be  '-'
       to request reading from stdin or writing to stdout, respectively, when used as a filter.

       The three scripts differ as follows:

       –      ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).

       –      ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).

       –      ps2pdf14 will always produce PDF 1.4 output (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible).

       –      ps2pdf  per se currently produces PDF 1.4 output.  However, this may change in the future.  If you
              care about the compatibility level of the output, use ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13 or ps2pdf14, or  use  the
              -dCompatibilityLevel=1.x switch in the command line.

       There  are  some limitations in ps2pdf's conversion.  See the HTML documentation for more information.  A
       large number of Adobe Distiller(TM) parameters which can be used  to  control  the  conversion  are  also
       documented there, including instructions for generating PDF/X and PDF/A documents.

       Converting a figure.ps to figure.pdf:

              ps2pdffigure.ps

       A conversion with more specifics:

              ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress figure.psproof.pdf

       Converting as part of a pipe:

              make_report.pl -t ps | ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 - - | lpr

       ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
       ps2pdf12 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
       ps2pdf13 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
       ps2pdf14 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

       The ps2pdf scripts use the same options as gs(1).

gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
       VectorDevices.htm in the Ghostscript documentation

ps2pdf  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf12  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf13  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf14  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0.