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Occasionally, I have to convert a PDF file to Postscript e. I also know that one of the two is pdf2ps and the other is better. This post should pdf2ps an options to that! The options tools is based on Ghostscripta PostScript interpreter. It is actually a fairly thin shell script wrapper around the "gs" tool. Running pdf2ps -h pdf2ps gives you this info. However, as the tool is based on Ghostscript, you can also give it options options that "gs" accepts for example -r to set the resolution to dpi. The pdftops tool comes with Xpdf or is successor Poppler e. Problem options pdf2ps: fonts are converted to bitmap fonts at pdf2ps pretty high resolution by default, but configurable with the -r option : For starters, the Pdf2ps conversion can take quite some time. But more importantly, the resulting file can be huge, which puts a burden on options processing of the PostScript file. I also remember having issues with pdf2ps rather aggressively cropping to bounding boxes. With pdftops on the other hand, the conversion takes less time, the resulting file is smaller, and fonts are better preserved. Check out the pdf2ps page for more info. Apart from the pdftops tool, the poppler-utils package also provides some other interesting toosl: options PDF document information extractorpdfimages PDF image extractorpdftohtml PDF to HTML converterpdftotext PDF to text converterand pdffonts PDF font analyzer Blog of Options Lippens Tags Archive About PDF to PostScript conversion: pdf2ps versus pdftops By Stefaan Lippens on Tagged postscriptpdf Pdf2ps, I have to convert a PDF file to Postscript e. Spoiler alert and a questionable mnemonic "pdftops is da top". pdf2ps options

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