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I have some files, each of which consists of several pages. In most of the files the pages have no common width (and height). I'd like to define some common width and then scale all pages ...
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Let's take a PDF file that is slightly wider than taller, e.g., https://we.tl/t-iihJ3gMsrA : pdfinfo input.pdf | grep "Page size" Page size: 397.349 x 378.153 pts Let's try to upscale ...
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I processed a PDF file using Ghostscript: gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q -o output.pdf input.pdf When I used a text/binary editor to look into the output PDF, I noticed that ...
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I have a directory foo containing .pdf files named with pattern X01, X02, ..., each two pages long. I want to combine them to a new .pdf, named "all_YY-MM-DDTHHMMSS.pdf" that will contain ...
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While there's similar questions on how to compress a PDF using a command-line tool like ghostscript, is there a GUI experience to compress a PDF file's images? Previously on macOS I used tools like ...
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I;m tried to use Ghostscript to extract fonts from PDF file. GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3 (2020-10-01) I downloaded extractFonts.ps tool and put it in same folder with PDF file. I also set permissions for ...
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Context Catalina (zsh) & Homebrew: man pages return successfully for pdftk & ps2pdf The goal is to execute: pdfBatesStamp.sh as described in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/115537/182280 I ...
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input: gs myPSFile.ps output: GPL Ghostscript 9.50 (2019-10-15) Copyright (C) 2019 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO ...
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I need to automatically convert my pupils' solutions which are photos and scans of various orientations, resolution, quality and file format into a single PDF with fitting dimensions. The dimensions ...
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The Problem I have a lot of old books that I want to scan and digitize. For this, I use some flatbed scanner, xsane and GImageReader, which works great. Back a few years ago, when I was still using ...
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My project is about processing a weekly newsletter into an annual PDF compilation. The hard copy originals were scanned by someone else using Abbyy FineReader. The original documents were US letter ...
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I have a large set PDF documents, many of which will be multiple pages. I am using Ghostscript [GS] to generate a JPG thumbnail image for each PDF. I only want one JPG per PDF, which should be an ...
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I have a latex program that creates an svg file looking like this: *** WARNING - you have selected SAFER, indicating you want Ghostscript to execute in a safer environment, but at the ...
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I have a print job that uses ghostscript as a filter to print a composite ps file. This file produces errors to the /var/log/cups/error_log and is not being removed from the queue even after 1 day (...
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I have installed and build ghostscript and graphicsmagick from source Have deleted both directories because I want to install them via apt-get apt-get install --reinstall graphicsmagick ghostscript ...
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I regularly need to convert pdf document in A4 format into US letter format. Following Convert pdf to a different page size (US Letter -> A4), I use pdfjam --outfile out.pdf --paper letter in.pdf ...
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i use ghostscript to save pdf files as tif. I've written a little function in the shell script i use to delete the uncomplete output folder when i abort the process. function lock-remove { rm -r ...
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I have a pdf file, whose text can be shown correctly in evince, but not when text are searched or copied and pasted outside the file. For example, "external transportation." is copied and pasted ...
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I don't know if this can be done, I'm just learning ghostscript. Say I have multiple PDF files each about 500 Pages in length. Can I setup ghostscript to go extract every 100 pages from each ...
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I am plotting the (postscript) ps file using the ghostscript in the terminal. When I use the command"gs file.ps", it always gives the portrait orientation like following do you know how could I ...
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Is there a way to revert a PDF after it is compressed? Every PDF is getting corrupted when it gets compressed with our script, which runs gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS="/...
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In order to extract a part of a PDF page on a Gnu/Linux machine I use the following command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o out.pdf -g2300x2300 input.pdf The -g...x... option lets me choose coordinates on ...
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Lulu is a print on-demand service. Part of the creation process is to upload a cover. The "cover" is 1 page that has the dimensions 17.25 inches wide by 11.25 inches high. There is a 0.125 "bleed area"...
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I intend to compress a few thousand PDF files in a folder recursively. I tried with following loop: #!/bin/bash find "/home/user/original" -type f -name *.pdf | while read -r file do gs -sDEVICE=...
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At first I thought this might have been a missing font issue but as far as I can tell from the output, GS is finding the font just fine.. Any hints as to what the problem might be? $ /usr/bin/gs -...
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I'm trying to install Ghostscript 9.23 from source, and getting some errors I'm not familiar with. I'm using CentOS. $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.9-67.ELsmp ([email protected]....
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I have two single-page PDFs, and want to merge them into a single two-pages PDF. So I ran: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf 1.pdf 2.pdf Problem: The result has each ...
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I would like to place a horizontal line immediately below some text. Is it possible to determine the distance between the baseline and lowest descender of a given font in Ghostscript, or is the ...
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So after a year of use my printer decided to not print anymore. After troubleshooting for a bit I noticed that the cups error log shows something like gs: symbol lookup error: <path>/libgs.so....
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PREFACE I understand this is a little harder since I can't provide the actual pdf, but the question boils down to a more general ghostscript config question so I don't think the pdf is needed. I ...
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I have a GoDEX RT700i printer (203 DPI) and I want to print barcodes in Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) The barcodes I have are in PDF format. There is a 8 digit number below the barcode. In Windows, there is ...
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I am just trying to change the orientation of a file before piping it to lp since the -o option is not working : gs -sDEVICE=pxlcolor -sOutputFile="\|lp -dprintername" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -c "<</...
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I have several PPT files with slides, that I want to convert to a single PDF with slide per page + lines for notes. I then want to print that PDF and give it as handouts. What is the best and easiest ...
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I'm using ghostscript to process some PDF files, and I would like to add a thin black border around the files. Is this something that can be done with ghostscript, or are there other (non-lossy) ...
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What I want to do is convert a pdf file that has colorful fonts to one that all it's fonts' colors are black. This is not a duplicate of this question here. I don't want greyscale fonts I want them ...
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I have a PDF created with Quark Xpress where some raster images are shown with thin white lines across them. Searching around I have found that the problem is due to the way PDFs readers apply partial ...
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I am trying to create a one-line Linux command to combine two PDF files - which are downloaded from a URL - using Ghostscript. However, I do not want to create any temporary files (everything should ...
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In Linux, please, how do I direct output from a ghostscript program to my HP LaserJet printer? My eventual aim is to draw maps to scale from Natural Earth data . A test page from the printer is ...
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I want merge several pdf files into a single one. Found this great answer on SO, but there is a problem here. My pdfs are not in the same directory, so essentially I want to do a find call and pipe ...
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I use "gv" command in my scripts to view *.pdf or *.ps files (I do that instead of using "acroread" or "okular" because "gv" has a nice option "-watch" that allows me to see changes in a troff or ...
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I'm trying to define an up to date method for converting any PDF into a PDF/A-1b able to pass 3-Heights validation. I came up with this script which uses ghostscript and qpdf: #! /bin/bash # ...
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I have a few PDF files which suffer the problem shown in the image: (the blue part is mouse-selected, the right part in black is how the entire document looks!) I tried /prepressing and even -...
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I run Arch Linux 64-bit and strongly prefer not to add multiarch support for 32-bit software, so I do not want to install the proprietary 32-bit driver for my Brother MFC-J4710DW printer. Research ...
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I'm trying to get a better sense of how the "Print to File" option works on Linux Mint. Basically, when I open a PDF with Evince and print it to PDF, the output is different from the original, and ...
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The following command produced the result of the following image using convert, where an overlay box containing the letter "A" was layered over the PDF: convert online_gauss.pdf -fill white -...
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I have a large poster as a pdf-file. I need to create a raster image from it (for instance because there seems to be no pdf viewer which allows me to zoom sufficiently to see the contents). So I ...
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PDF files of slide show presentations distributed by my lecturers often contain a huge number of pages, because each animation step results in an new page (sometimes 20 pages per slide). This is nice ...
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I'm trying to print a simple US Letter document, but for some reason, I just cannot manage to fit it properly onto A4 when printing multiple pages per-list. I have tried converting the pdf using: gs -...
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I try to split the pages of one PDF file into a separated one-page PDF files. This command does the job so far: gs \ -q \ -dQUIET \ -dSAFER \ -dBATCH \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dNOPROMPT \ -dAutoRotatePages=/...
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I have this PDF file created by scanning. When viewing it in any PDF viewer, the page's width is greater than the height. But it seems like all the PDF applications I have tried mistake the width as ...
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