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Create PostScript from PDF

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makaveliuk

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Dec 1, 2003
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Is it possible to automatically print a PDF file to PostScript either by COM/ActiveX or command line or something?

I need to have large PDF files converted to postscript over night so need to automate it somehow

Anyone got any ideas?
 
I have tried the PDF2PS util with ghostscript but it seems to fail everytime, the only reliable method I have found is Acrobat, I have found the command line to print to postscript but it does not quit acrobat when it's finished so I can't queue the files and process them in sequence.
 
Set up a dummy PS printer, set the "port" to "file"

(Assuming Windoze, of course)

How to automate is another story, but you can certainly print from Acrobat to a PS printer "to file" or to a port set as "file".
Why PS?

Jay
 
I already have it printing to file using the command line, the only problem is that the /t switch which should terminate Acrobat after printing does not seem to work.
 
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