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gs — GhostScript, a PDF and PostScript interpreter. More information: <https://manned.org/gs>.

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Problem

How to use the gs command: GhostScript, a PDF and PostScript interpreter. More information: <https://manned.org/gs>.

Solution

gs — GhostScript, a PDF and PostScript interpreter. More information: <https://manned.org/gs>.

View a file:
gs -dQUIET -dBATCH {{file.pdf}}


Reduce PDF file size to 150 dpi images for reading on an e-book device:
gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -sOutputFile={{output.pdf}} {{input.pdf}}


Convert PDF file (pages 1 through 3) to an image with 150 dpi resolution:
gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -r150 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=3 -sOutputFile={{output_%d.jpg}} {{input.pdf}}


Extract pages from a PDF file:
gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile={{output.pdf}} {{input.pdf}}


Merge PDF files:
gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile={{output.pdf}} {{input1.pdf}} {{input2.pdf}}


Convert from PostScript file to PDF file:
gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile={{output.pdf}} {{input.ps}}

Code Snippets

View a file

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH {{file.pdf}}

Reduce PDF file size to 150 dpi images for reading on an e-book device

gs -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -sOutputFile={{output.pdf}} {{input.pdf}}

Convert PDF file (pages 1 through 3) to an image with 150 dpi resolution

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -r150 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=3 -sOutputFile={{output_%d.jpg}} {{input.pdf}}

Extract pages from a PDF file

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile={{output.pdf}} {{input.pdf}}

Merge PDF files

gs -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile={{output.pdf}} {{input1.pdf}} {{input2.pdf}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/gs

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