underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com writes:
>Is there any free download-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
>to PostScript file ?

>Something similiar to the pre-packaged "pdftops" program under /usr/
>sfw/bin in Solaris 10.

Thats part of the xpdf package. You can get that from Blastwave..

underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any free download-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
> to PostScript file ?
>
> Something similiar to the pre-packaged "pdftops" program under /usr/
> sfw/bin in Solaris 10.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>


Hi Bill,

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programli...ml#ghostscript

--
Chris

On Mar 16, 1:21 pm, Chris Lawson wrote:
> underh20.scubadiv...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Is there any free download-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
> > to PostScript file ?

Hi,

I've installed the Ghostscript 8.54 package from the Sun software
web site at our Solaris 8 server. When I tried to convert the pdf
file to the post script file, I am getting error below. Any idea ?


# /usr/local/bin/pdf2ps e3hp4_20070316T154818.066.pdf
e3hp4_20070316T154818.066.ps


Error: /invalidfont in findfont
Operand stack:
--dict:9/9(L)-- TT32 1 --dict:8/8(L)-- Arial --dict:
8/8(L)-- Helvetica Helvetica Font Helvetica 1
507784 Helvetica --nostringval-- Helvetica NimbusSanL-Regu
Courier NimbusMonL-Regu
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --
nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1
3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3
%oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 1 1 --
nostringval-- %for_pos_int_continue --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
%array_continue --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push
--nostringval-- %loop_continue --nostringval-- --
nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringva
l-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 8 10 %oparray_pop 9
10 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringva
l-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false
1 %stopped_push 12 11 %oparray_pop --nostr
ingval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1 -1 1 --
nostringval-- %for_neg_int_continue
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1119/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:2/20(G)-- --dict:75/200(L)--
--dict:75/200(L)-- --dict:105/127(ro)(G)-- --
dict:253/347(ro)(G)-- --dict:21/24(L)-- --dict:4/6(L)-- --dict:
21/32(L)-- --dict:8/8(L)-- --dict:17/17(ro)(G)-
- --dict:1119/1686(ro)(G)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
GPL Ghostscript 8.54: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1






> > Something similiar to the pre-packaged "pdftops" program under /usr/
> > sfw/bin in Solaris 10.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Bill
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/programli...ml#ghostscript
>
> --
> Chris

underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any free download-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
> to PostScript file ?

If you have Acrobat 5 (4 also ?) you can do "cat my.pdf | acroread
-toPostScript > my.ps"

On Mar 16, 4:01 pm, Roger Johnson wrote:
> underh20.scubadiv...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Is there any freedownload-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
> > to PostScript file ?
>
> If you haveAcrobat5 (4 also ?) you can do "cat my.pdf | acroread
> -toPostScript > my.ps"

Hi Roger,

We don't ahve Acrobat reader. Do you know where we can download the
acrobat reader for the version you've mentioned ?

Thanks,

Bill

underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com writes:
>On Mar 16, 4:01 pm, Roger Johnson wrote:
>> underh20.scubadiv...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > Is there any freedownload-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
>> > to PostScript file ?
>>
>> If you haveAcrobat5 (4 also ?) you can do "cat my.pdf | acroread
>> -toPostScript > my.ps"

>Hi Roger,

> We don't ahve Acrobat reader. Do you know where we can download the
>acrobat reader for the version you've mentioned ?


Do you have SPARC or x86? Since Solaris 8, I'd assume SPARC.

Its available here

http://www.adobe.com/products/acroba...lversions.html

Doug McIntyre wrote:
> underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com writes:
>> On Mar 16, 4:01 pm, Roger Johnson wrote:
>>> underh20.scubadiv...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Is there any freedownload-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
>>>> to PostScript file ?
>>> If you haveAcrobat5 (4 also ?) you can do "cat my.pdf | acroread
>>> -toPostScript > my.ps"
>
>> Hi Roger,
>
>> We don't ahve Acrobat reader. Do you know where we can download the
>> acrobat reader for the version you've mentioned ?
>
>
> Do you have SPARC or x86? Since Solaris 8, I'd assume SPARC.
>
> Its available here
>
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acroba...lversions.html

Seems you can only get the latest 7.x version. Don't know if it works on
Solars 8. You can try older Acrobat' here:
http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/usr-218-2/acroread/unix/5.x/

With Acrobat 5 you can run Acroread in scripts w/o the DISPLAY variable
set nor needed, but with Acrobat 7, it HAS to be connected to a DISPLAY.
PITA.

On 2007-03-16, Chris Lawson wrote:
> underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there any free download-able Solaris 8 program to convert PDF file
>> to PostScript file ?
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/programli...ml#ghostscript

While ghostscript will work fine the files it generates have a
couple of limitations since ghostscript simply rasterizes everything
before generating a postscript output file. This has the effect
of both reducing the quality and causing a massive increase in file
size, which wastes disk space and may well slow things down if you
come to print the file. Someone else has already mentioned xpdf
which is a much better open source option.

--
Andrew Smallshaw
andrews@sdf.lonestar.org