Converting a figure.ps to figure.pdf: ps2pdf figure.ps A conversion with more specifics: ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress figure.ps proof.pdf Converting as part of a pipe: make_report.pl -t ps | ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 - - | lpr. An arrayref of additional parameters to pass to Ghostscript (for advanced users only). Ghostscript is normally run with -dSAFER, which prevents the PostScript code from accessing the filesystem. Passing unsafe => 1 will use -dNOSAFER instead. Don't do this unless you trust the PostScript code you are converting. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript® language and PDF files. It is available under either the GNU GPL Affero license or licensed for commercial use from Artifex Software, Inc. It has been under active development for over 30 years and has been ported to several different systems during this time. create a .ps file pass the ps file into ghostscript with the correct parms.. and like magic anything you can make into a ps file, you could convert it to pdf. All Free. No acrobat needed. That was where I stared.. using VFP to duplicate the orig linux script - or dos batch file.. ps2pdf provides simplified interface to Ghostscript command line. It is not possible to use -c option or pass multiple source files. For the unrestricted access to the command line parameters, use Ghostscript directly. gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=file.pdf [more options] -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -c .setpdfwrite -f source1.ps [more files] Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. gswin32c.exe -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=mydocument.ps mydocument.pdf To convert a PS file to PDF, see this HowTo . comment Comments () Hi, I want to convert a Postscript(.PS) file to .PDF format with the help of c++ API. Any suggestion how i can achieve it .if not possible with c++, please suggest any API for C# as well. I have done too much research but nothing much help i got. Thanks in advance. · You can use the The Ghostscript Interpreter API · I tried but the pdf i got is empty. The pdf2ps tools is based on Ghostscript, a PostScript interpreter. It is actually a fairly thin shell script wrapper around the "gs" tool. Basic usage is pretty straight forward: pdf2ps [options] input.pdf [output.ps] In case you don't specify the output file name, it's extracted from the input file name by replacing the ".pdf" extension with. The Distiller® service converts PostScript Overview ps2pdf is a work-alike for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat TM Distiller TM product: it converts PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.. ps2pdf is implemented as a very small command script (batch file) that invokes Ghostscript, selecting a special "output device" called pdfwrite.In order to use ps2pdf, the pdfwrite device Ghostscript is a high quality, high performance Postscript and PDF interpreter and rendering engine. Ghostscript can be used by other applications to enable handling of Postscript and PDF data. It can be used for file handling, printing, and file conversion. It includes support for PDF/A and PDF/X-3. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Converting PDF to PNG using Ghostscript. Basic Ghostscript command. In its very simple form Ghostscript can be executed as below: gs -sDevice=png16m -sOutputFile="pic-1.png" input.pdf. Convert multi page PDF to PNG files. Convert specific page (s) of multi-pag