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authorChris Liddell <chris.liddell@artifex.com>2013-07-23 16:24:19 +0100
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+.TH PDF2DSC 1 "30 March 2015" 9.16 "Ghostscript Tools" \" -*- nroff -*-
+.SH NAME
+pdf2dsc \- generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBpdf2dsc\fR \fIinput.pdf\fR [ \fIoutput.dsc\fR ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fBpdf2dsc\fR uses \fBgs\fR(1) to read an Adobe \fBPortable Document
+Format\fR (PDF) document "input.pdf" and create a \fBPostScript\fR(tm)
+document "output.dsc" that conforms to Adobe's \fBDocument Structuring
+Conventions\fR (DSC) requirements.
+.PP
+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 Ghostscript, like \fBghostview\fR(1) on
+Unix or \fBGSview\fR on Windows, with which the user can browse through the
+pages of the PDF document in any order.
+.PP
+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".
+.SH CAVEATS
+The DSC document uses Ghostscript-specific procedures. In addition, the
+original PDF document must be accessible when the DSC document is
+processed.
+.PP
+You need the file "pdf2dsc.ps" (originally by Russell Lang) supplied with
+Ghostscript since release 3.53.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+gs(1), ghostview(1)
+.SH VERSION
+This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.16.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Yves Arrouye <yves.arrouye@usa.net> and Russell Lang gsview at ghostgum.com.au