{
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "pdf2dsc",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pdf2dsc/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-05-30T06:06:46Z",
    "synopsis": "pdf2dsc input.pdf [ output.dsc ]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "pdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "pdf2dsc input.pdf [ output.dsc ]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "pdf2dsc  uses  gs(1) to read an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) document \"input.pdf\" and\ncreate a PostScript(tm) document \"output.dsc\" that conforms to Adobe's  Document  Structuring\nConventions (DSC) requirements.\n\nThis new document simply tells Ghostscript to read the PDF file and to display pages one at a\ntime.  The generated document can then be viewed with any PostScript viewer based  on  Ghost‐\nscript,  like  ghostview(1)  on  Unix  or  GSview  on Windows, with which the user can browse\nthrough the pages of the PDF document in any order.\n\nIf no output file is named on the command line, the name of the output file is  that  of  the\ninput file with any extension removed, followed by the extension \".dsc\".\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "CAVEATS": {
            "content": "The  DSC  document uses Ghostscript-specific procedures.  In addition, the original PDF docu‐\nment must be accessible when the DSC document is processed.\n\nYou need the file \"pdf2dsc.ps\" (originally by Russell Lang) supplied with  Ghostscript  since\nrelease 3.53.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "gs(1), ghostview(1)\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "VERSION": {
            "content": "This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.55.0.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHOR": {
            "content": "Yves Arrouye <yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang gsview at ghostgum.com.au\n\n\n\n9.55.0                                    27 September 2021                               PDF2DSC(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "pdf2dsc - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "gs",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/gs/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "ghostview",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ghostview/1/json"
        }
    ]
}