gs

linux

GhostScript, a PDF and PostScript interpreter.

Examples (6)

View a file

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH file.pdf

Reduce PDF file size to 150 dpi images for reading on an e-book device

gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Convert PDF file (pages 1 through 3) to an image with 150 dpi resolution

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -r150 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=3 -sOutputFile=output_%d.jpg input.pdf

Extract pages from a PDF file

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Merge PDF files

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf input1.pdf input2.pdf

Convert from PostScript file to PDF file

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.ps