Convert PostScript to PDF
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf filein.ps
Merge/combine PDF and/or PostScript files
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=fileout.pdf \
filein.ps filein2.pdf
Extract a page from a PostScript or PDF document
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFirstPage=3 -dLastPage=3 \
-sOutputFile=fileout.pdf filein.ps
PDF optimization level selection options
-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen (screen-view-only quality — 72 dpi images) -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook (low quality — 150 dpi images) -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer (high quality — 300 dpi images) -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress (high quality with color preserving — 300 dpi images) -dPDFSETTINGS=/default (almost identical to /screen)
Paper size selection options:
-sPAPERSIZE=letter -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=w -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=h (point=1/72 of an inch) -dFIXEDMEDIA (force the specified paper size over the PostScript defined size)
Other options:
-dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=false -dFirstPage=pagenumber -dLastPage=pagenumber -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoRotatePages=/All -dAutoRotatePages=/None -r1200 (resolution for pattern fills and fonts converted to bitmaps) -sPDFPassword=password
PDFmarks:
Create a file named "pdfmarks" with this content:
[ /Title (Document title) /Author (Author name) /Subject (Subject description) /Keywords (comma, separated, keywords) /ModDate (D:20061204092842) /CreationDate (D:20061204092842) /Creator (application name or creator note) /Producer (PDF producer name or note) /DOCINFO pdfmark
then combine it with a PostScript or PDF file:
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=withmarks.pdf \
nomarks.ps pdfmarks
or add a couple of named destinations to the pdfmarks file:
[ /Dest /NamedDest1 /Page 1 /View [/XYZ 20 620 1.8] /DEST pdfmark [ /Dest /NamedDest2 /Page 2 /View [/FitH 15] /DEST pdfmark
or bookmarks:
[/Count -2 /Dest /NamedDest1 /Title (Preface) /OUT pdfmark [ /Action /GoTo /Dest /NamedDest1 /Title (Audience) /OUT pdfmark [ /Action /GoTo /Dest /NamedDest2 /Title (Content) /OUT pdfmark [/Count 3 /Page 2 /View [/XYZ 10 160 1.0] /Title (Part 1) /OUT pdfmark [ /Page 2 /View [/XYZ 10 160 1.0] /Title (A first one) /OUT pdfmark [ /Page 3 /View [/XYZ 0 500 NULL] /Title (The second one) /OUT pdfmark [ /Page 6 /View [/FitH 220] /Title (The third thing) /OUT pdfmark [ /PageMode /UseOutlines /DOCVIEW pdfmark
For more information about pdfmarks see pdfmark Reference Manual.
Note for LyX, LaTex/teTeX and Tex users:
To be able to embed Type1 Computer Modern fonts into the resulting pdf file you will need CM-Super, the GPL licensed Type1 Computer Modern font package, in addition to the TeX default Computer Modern METAFONT-based fonts. Most GNU/Linux distributions already provide the cm-super package — for easy installation use the distributions default package management system.
