# PDF2DSC(1) - man - phpMan

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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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/gs/1/markdown) 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  Ghost‐
       script,  like  [**ghostview**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ghostview/1/markdown)  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 docu‐
       ment 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/gs/1/markdown), [ghostview(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ghostview/1/markdown)

## VERSION
       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.55.0.

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



9.55.0                                    27 September 2021                               [PDF2DSC(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/PDF2DSC/1/markdown)