ps2pdfwr(1)

ps2pdfwr1

Convert postscript to pdf without specifying compatibilitylevel, using ghostscript

Usage

ps2pdfwr [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]

Overview

This wrapper script invokes gs(1) with following arguments

-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite

as well as the appropriate -dOutputFile argument, all preceded and followed by any command-line arguments. Finally, the security option -dSAFER is prepended before all the other options (This is now redundant as "SAFER" is now the default, but the option does no harm).

The version-specific ps2pdf scripts all invoke this one with the addition of the respective compatibility level option.

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.