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Re: Distilling postscript files

On 11/22/06, vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


How about that there is a raft of free open source or public domain
software for AIX that can be used from the iSeries. How about that with
ghostscript you can print PDF files natively from iSeries? Stuff like that.



The trick that would probably do it is to be able to intelligently,
automatically generate the PDFs from the postscript, as I described earlier,
through here.  I think I saw that that ghostview can convert an entire
postscript file to PDF via the command line, so if it can do that for
specified page ranges, I think we could make a lot of people happy.

Anybody know whether Ghostview can take command line parameters:
- Postscript file name
- Page range to print (array of page numbers?)
- PDF file name to output to

There could be some serious kudos here for that kind of magic.

Thanks and, speaking of which, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S.
contingent!
- Dan

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