From: Marc Tardif [intmktg@Gloria.CAM.ORG]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:06 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Can't get ghostscript 6.0 to create postscript file from
pdf.

In my reply to your original posting, I pasted the following line from the
pdf2ps script:

exec gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=$2 $OPTIONS -c save pop -$

Perhaps my message was delayed, but in case you missed it, the answer to
your latest question is to use the -dNOPAUSE flag.

On 5 Jan 2001, Mark London wrote:

> Hi -  That does create the file, but now I get the showpage prompt, no matter
> what I try.  Is there a way to avoid that?  Thanks.
> 
> $ gs "-sDEVICE=pswrite" "-sOutputFile=abc.xyz" example.pdf "-dBATCH"
> Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0 (2000-02-03)
> Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> Processing pages 1 through 1.
> Page 1
> >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<
> 
> 
> In a previous article, Helge Blischke <H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de> wrote:
> ->Mark London wrote:
> ->> 
> ->> I'm trying to get ghostscript 6.0 to create a postscript file from pdf.  I do
> ->> the following:
> ->> 
> ->> $  gs "-dNODISPLAY"  "-sOutputFile=abc.xyz" example.pdf "-dBATCH" "-dNOPAUSE"
> ->> Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0 (2000-02-03)
> ->> Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
> ->> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
> ->> Processing pages 1 through 1.
> ->> Page 1
> ->> 
> ->> No abc.xyz is created.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks.
> -> 
> ->Replace the "-dNODISPLAY" by "-sDEVICE=pswrite".
> -> 
> ->Helge
> -> 
> ->-- 
> ->H.Blischke@srz-berlin.de
> ->H.Blischke@srz-berlin.com
> ->H.Blischke@acm.org
> 
> Mark London
> MRL@PSFC.MIT.EDU
> 
>