dvipdf(1)

dvipdf1

Convert tex dvi file to pdf using ghostscript and dvips

Usage

dvipdf [options] input.dvi [output.pdf] ...

Overview

This script invokes dvips(1) with the -q option, and pipes its output into gs(1) with the following options:

-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite

as well as -sOutputFile and any options from the command-line.

Version

This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12
  12. 13–Arch

Author

Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. This manpage by George Ferguson.

From ghostscript 10.08.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.