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TIFF/PDF To Postscript Converter for Linux?

Posted by timothy on from the a-pdf-is-worth-a-thousand-kb dept.

Munbuns writes: "Just a quick question for everyone out there. Does anyone know of an easy to use TIFF/PDF to Postscript converter for Linux? I'm working on a project at my University in which I need some sort of program to convert at the least PDF files to Postscript, but TIFF conversion would be a plus as well. Any help would be appreciated." If there's not, this is a tool that thousands of people would like to see.

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  1. Do Your Research Before Asking The Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    libtiff (http://www.libtiff.org/) comes with a tiff2ps utility.

    [Free beer] Acrobat Reader for Linux/Solaris will convert PDF to PS level 2 or 3.

    xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/) will convert PDF to PS.

    This is just off the top of my head.

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  2. Did you even try to find a solution? by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 3

    Sheesh. Of all the slop that gets posted on /. I can't figure out what magic fscking criteria this question made in order to get accepted. Duh! use FRESHMEAT.NET to find this sort of thing out. Maybe just grab a brain and first check out ghostscript. Fsck!!!

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  3. Re:WordPerfect? by schon · · Score: 2
    yes - send the output to a postscript printer that saves to a file instead of sending to printer port.


    Technically yes.. but if you ever want to convert it to something else, not really..

    I tried doing this a few times to make Hylafax cover pages (all of our existing coversheets are in WP or MSWord format).. after 'printing', there was no text (as in _no_ text) in the ps document it generated.. all of the text got converted to line commands..

    Thus printing to a file will work, but only if you never need to do anything with the file but print it..
  4. pdf2ps by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 5

    Ghostscript includes pdf2ps. libtiff provides tiff2ps and fax2ps. Both are shipped as part of Red Hat, RPMs available in the usual places.

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  5. Adobe Acrobat for Linux will convert PDF files ... by dougmc · · Score: 2
    Acrobat can create postscript files.

    It can even do it programmatically -- no clicking required.

    acroread -toPostScript < file.pdf > file.ps
    it's that simple.

    And ghostscript can do it too, but it can't handle the encrypted (yuk!) PDF files. As for tiff files, that's already been answered.

  6. Ghostscript for PDF by raju1kabir · · Score: 4

    With recent versions of ghostscript, you can use a line like this to convert myfile.pdf to myfile.ps:

    gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=myfile.ps myfile.pdf
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