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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) document "output.dsc" 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)
       on Unix or GSview on Windows, 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 9.26.

AUTHOR

       Yves Arrouye <yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang gsview at ghostgum.com.au