Re: ps and pdf question

[Karl Hammar]

address@hidden:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> So, I too, would rather have lilypond convert automatically to PS
> >> level 2.
> >
> > You can do this manually, saying
> >
> >   gs -sDEVICE=pswrite \
> >      -dLanguageLevel=2 \
> >      -sOutputFile=foo-level2.ps \
> >      foo.ps
> 
> Ghostscript comes with a tool 'ps2ps' that makes this easier:
> 
>   ps2ps  -dLanguageLevel=2  in.ps out.ps

Yes, that could do it, but one have to add the paper size:

$ ps2ps -dLanguageLevel=2 -sPAPERSIZE=a4  in.ps out.ps

 or (which is the same)

$ gs -q -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dLanguageLevel=2 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 
-sOutputFile=out.ps  in.ps

Regards
/Karl