PSTOEDIT(1) PSTOEDIT(1) (NAME) pstoedit - PostScript (SYNOPSIS) (FROM A COMMAND SHELL) pstoedit [-v -help] pstoedit : [-include ] [-df ] [-nomaptoisolatin1] [-dis] [-pngimage ] [-q] [-nq] [-nc] [-mergelines] [-filledrecttostroke] [-mergetext] [-dt] [-adt] [-ndt] [-dgbm] [-correctdefinefont] [-pti] [-pta] [-xscale ] [-yscale ] [-xshift ] [-yshift ] [-centered] [-minlinewidth ] [-pagenumberformat ] [-split] [-v] [-vl ] [-usebbfrominput] [-ssp] [-sfill] [-uchar ] [-nb] [-rdb] [-page ] [-flat ] [-sclip] [-ups] [-usefinddevice] [-rgb] [-useagl] [-noclip] [-t2fontsast1] [-keep] [-debugfonthandling] [-gstest] [-fakedateandversion] [-nfr] [-glyphs] [-useoldnormalization] [-rotate (0-360)] [-fontmap pstoedit] [-pagesize ] [-help] [-bo] [-psarg ] [-pslanguagelevel PostScript : .] -f "format[:options]" [-gs /DLL Ghostscript - - ( 10.01.0) .] [-gsregbase Ghostscript] [ inputfile [outputfile] ] PstoeditQtGui . pstoedit . Ghostscript . QT (https://www.qt.io). pstoedit . . : << >> (hard coded) pstoedit . pstoedit . (DESCRIPTION) (RELEASE LEVEL) 4.3 pstoedit . (USE) pstoedit PostScript . . : pstoedit -help . Pstoedit . (PRINCIPLE OF CONVERSION) pstoedit PostScript stroke show ( image ). PostScript PostScript Ghostscript (gs(1)) . PostScript . -bo << >> (back end only) pstoedit . << >> . PostScript <<>> ('flat') moveto lineto show . -f debug . pstoedit ( <<>> "back-end" ) . GHOSTSCRIPT pstoedit PostScript Ghostscript (https://ghostscript.com) . 9.55 Ghostscript PDF PostScript . pstoedit PDF PostScript . 9.56 PDF Ghostscript C pstoedit PDF . PDF PostScript . Ghostscript gs:ps2write (-f gs:ps2write) pstoedit . (GENERAL OPTIONS) : [-include filename] PostScript . PostScript file renamefile deletefile . [-xscale number] x [-yscale number] y [-xshift number] x [-yshift number] y [-centered] [-minlinewidth number] . - [-pagenumberformat page number format specification] -split. sprintf . % d . %d . 1 2 ... 10 . 02 . [-split] . %d . ( fig gnuplot) . [-usebbfrominput] pstoedit BoundingBox ( ) . [-page page number] PostScript PDF. [-rgb] 3.30 pstoedit CMYK . -rgb RGB . [-useagl] Adobe Glyph List ISO Latin-1 ( ) [-noclip] (clipping) ( ) [-rotate angle (0-360)] . [-pagesize page format] . . libplot . letter a4 . [-help] [-bo] backend ( frontend PostScript) pstoedit -f dump infile dumpfile pstoedit -f format -bo dumpfile outfile. [-psarg argument string] Ghostscript PostScript pstoedit Ghostscript . : -psarg "-r300x300". (resolution) 300x300 dpi . ( Ghostscript -dis .) Ghostscript -psarg : -psarg opt1 -psarg opt2 -psarg opt2. Ghostscript . [-pslanguagelevel PostScript Language Level 1, 2, or 3 to be used.] PostScript . Ghostscript -pslanguagelevel 1 PostScript . PostScript pstoedit . PostScript PostScript . . -f "format[:options]" pstoedit . pstoedit -help . [:options] -f << >> . format pstoedit . pstoedit -f . [-gs either full path to the Ghostscript executable/DLL or - for Windows - just a version number (e.g. 10.01.0), in which case the version is used to look up the path from the registry.] pstoedit /DLL (Ghostscript) - [-gsregbase Ghostscript base registry path] Ghostscript. HKLM/Software GS GS_DLL / GS_LIB . : "-gsregbase MyCompany" HKLM/Software/MyCompany/GPL Ghostscript HKLM/Software/GPL Ghostscript . : [-df ] PostScript . PostScript dvips(1) . pstoedit . Courier . -df . -df Helvetica Helvetica . [-nomaptoisolatin1] pstoedit ISO Latin1 . -nomaptoisolatin1 PostScript . . . [-pngimage ] . PNG . [-dt] . . . ( gnuplot(1)) . [-adt] . -dt ( Symbol) . [-ndt] . pstoedit <<>> . . << >>. [-dgbm] - / . [-correctdefinefont] PostScript ChemDraw definefont PostScript pstoedit . FontName . <<>> definefont pstoedit . PostScript . ChemDraw . [-pti] . . . pstoedit . PDF PostScript . -pta . -pti . << >> . [-pta] -pti [-uchar ] pstoedit PostScript . pstoedit . "#" . -uchar . -uchar " " . [-t2fontsast1] Type 2 Type 1. Type 2 PDF . pstoedit . pstoedit . pstoedit - OCR . [-nfr] pstoedit -df . . -nfr . pstoedit . [-glyphs] . . . [-useoldnormalization] 3.5 - << >> . [-fontmap font map pstoedit] (font map) : document_font_name target_font_name % . "font name with spaces" . target_font_name / . . -fontmap pstoedit drivername.fmp fontmap . : * MS Windows: pstoedit * Unix: . < pstoedit > /../lib/ mpost.fmp misc pstoedit PostScript TeX . MetaPost TeX/LaTeX . MetaPost Scott Pakin (scott+ps2ed_AT_pakin.org) . wemf.fmp Windows . misc pstoedit . ( ) ( -fontmap) (unix.fmp windows.fmp). /AliasName . : [-nc] . pstoedit . pstoedit ( -flat ). . -nc . [-mergelines] . PostScript ( ) PostScript . pstoedit -mergelines . . [-filledrecttostroke] (stroked) . . [-mergetext] PostScript . ( ) . pstoedit (heuristics) . . . [-ssp] (subpaths). PostScript moveto . . . -dt e o b <<>> . -ssp pstoedit . (CPU) ! [-sfill] (individual strokes). [-flat flatness factor] PostScript -nc . -flat . setflat PostScript . 10 0.1 . [-sclip] (clipping). pstoedit . pstoedit clippath . . . << >> PostScript . -dt . (DIAGNOSTIC AND DEBUG OPTIONS) : [-dis] (display) Ghostscript. . [-q] - [-nq] PostScript. Ghostscript pstoedit . . Ghostscript quit . [-v] (verbose). . [-vl ] . . [-nb] 3.10 pstoedit Ghostscript -dDELAYBIND . -dNOBIND PostScript PostScript lt lineto << >> (less than). -nb -dDELAYBIND . . [-rdb] 3.10 pstoedit Ghostscript -dDELAYBIND . 9.22 Ghostscript . REALLYDELAYBIND -rdb pstoedit . PostScript PostScript . PostScript pstoedit . Ghostscript -dDELAYBIND . . pstoedit Ghostscript . [-ups] (plain string) - . [-usefinddevice] finddevice Ghostscript - . [-keep] pstoedit - [-debugfonthandling] - [-gstest] Ghostscript [-fakedateandversion] (regression testing) - . [ inputfile [outputfile] ] pstoedit () . <<->> . . <> output.xxx . (AVAILABLE FORMATS AND THEIR SPECIFIC OPTIONS) pstoedit . -f . (:) . -f (double-quote) : -f "format[:option option ...]" : pstoedit -f format:-help pstoedit . : PSF PS DEBUG DUMP PS2AI GS (FORMAT GROUP: PSF PS DEBUG DUMP PS2AI GS) : psf: PostScript ( ). ps: PostScript . debug: . dump: ( debug). ps2ai: Adobe Illustrator ps2ai.ps Ghostscript. gs: Ghostscript - gs:format gs:pdfwrite. : GMFA GMFB PLOT PLOT-PNM PLOT-CGM PLOT-AI PLOT-SVG PLOT-PS PLOT-FIG PLOT-PCL PLOT-HPGL PLOT-TEK (FORMAT GROUP) : gmfa: (ASCII GNU metafile). gmfb: (binary GNU metafile). plot: GNU libplot plot:-plotformat X. plot-pnm: pnm GNU libplot. plot-cgm: cgm GNU libplot. plot-ai: ai GNU libplot. plot-svg: svg GNU libplot. plot-ps: ps GNU libplot. plot-fig: fig GNU libplot. plot-pcl: pcl GNU libplot. plot-hpgl: hpgl GNU libplot. plot-tek: tek GNU libplot. : [-plotformat string] plotutil : [-sampleoption integer] IDRAW - INTERVIEWS DRAW (EPS) : FIG XFIG TFIG : fig: .fig xfig. xfig: .fig xfig. tfig: .fig xfig - . xfig fontmap . : General notation: "PostScript Font Name" ((LaTeX|PostScript|empty)(::special)::)XFigFontName Examples: Helvetica LaTeX::SansSerif Courier LaTeX::special::Typewriter GillSans "AvantGarde Demi" Albertus PostScript::special::"New Century Schoolbook Italic" Symbol ::special::Symbol (same as PostScript::special::Symbol) xfig examplefigmap.fmp misc pstoedit . xfig . - https://mcj.sourceforge.net/fig-format.html : [-startdepth number] ( 999) [-metric] ( ) [-usecorrectfontsize] xfig. xfig [-depth number] ( 11) TGIF - TGIF .OBJ : [-ta] (attribute) GNUPLOT - GNUPLOT : SVG XAML : svg: (Scalable Vector Graphics). xaml: (eXtensible Application Markup Language). : [-localdtd] DTD [-standalone] svg (stand-alone) [-withdtd] DTD [-withgrouping] save/restore SVG [-nogroupedpath] (paths) [-noviewbox] view box [-texmode] TeX [-imagetofile] (raster) [-notextrendering] textrendering [-border number] ( ) [-title string] StarView/OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org 1.0/StarOffice 6.0 . : [-m] Arial [-nf] VTK - VTK (VTK DRIVER) VTKe : [-VTKeoption integer] TK - TK / TK.PPLET (TK AND/OR TK.PPLET SOURCE CODE) : [-R] HW ( ) [-I] impress [-n string] (tagnames) CFDG - (CONTEXT FREE DESIGN GRAMMAR) (Context Free Design Grammar) Context Free Art (http://www.contextfreeart.org) GSCHEM - GSCHEM (GSCHEM FORMAT) : http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gaf PCB-RND - PCB-RND (PCB-RND FORMAT) : http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/pstoedit-pcb : [-grid double number] (snap) ( mil) [-snapdist double number] (0 < snapdist <= 0.5 0.1) [-tshiftx double number] x (mil) [-tshifty double number] y (mil) [-mm] (mm) [-forcepoly] : http://pcb.sourceforge.net PCB - PCB : http://pcb.sourceforge.net http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/pstoedit-pcb : [-grid double number] ( mil) [-snapdist double number] (0 < snapdist <= 0.5 0.1) [-tshiftx double number] (x) (mil) [-tshifty double number] (y) (mil) [-mm] () [-stdnames] [-forcepoly] PCBI - - INSULATE/PCB : HPGL PCL : hpgl: HPGL. pcl: PCL. : [-penplotter] ( ) [-pencolorsfromfile] drvhpgl.pencolors pstoedit [-pencolors number] pstoedit ( 0) - [-filltype string] FT 1 [-hpgl2] HPGL/2 HPGL/1 [-rot90] hpgl [-rot180] hpgl [-rot270] hpgl : [-troff] troff ( groff ) [-landscape] (landscape) [-portrait] (portrait) [-keepfont] [-text] [-debug] NOIXML - XML NEMETSCHEK NOI Nemetschek Object Interface XML : [-r string] Allplan [-bsl number] ( ) LATEX2E - LaTeX2E : [-integers] MMA - MATHEMATICA : [-eofillfills] eofill ( ) ASY - ASYMPTOTE MPOST - METAPOST SK - SKETCH TEXT - : [-height number] [-width number] [-dump] (dump) PDF - ADOBE JAVA2 - JAVA 2 : [java_class_name string] JAVA1 - JAVA 1.PPLET : [java_class_name string] : DXF DXF_14 DXF_S : dxf: CAD - . dxf_14 . dxf_14: CAD . dxf_s: CAD . : [-polyaslines] LINE POLYLINE DXF [-mm] DXF (mm=pt/72*25.4) [-ctl] [-filltohatch] (hatch) ( ) [-splineaspolyline] PolyLine ( -f dxf_s) [-splineasnurb] ( -f dxf_s) [-splineasbspline] ( -f dxf_s) [-splineassinglespline] ( -f dxf_s) [-splineasmultispline] ( -f dxf_s) [-splineasbezier] DXF ( -f dxf_s) [-splineprecision number] -splineaspolyline -splineasmultispline - =2 ( ) [-dumplayernames] [-layers string] ( ) [-layerfilter string] ( ) . RIB - RENDERMAN . LWO - LIGHTWAVE . CAIRO - CAIRO C cairo . : [-pango] pango [-funcname string] myfig [-header string] C myfig.h GCODE - EMC2 GCODE : http://linuxcnc.org . (NOTES ON SPECIFIC FORMATS AND DRIVERS) AUTOTRACE pstoedit autotrace . autotrace -bo ( back-end) (dump) pstoedit . autotrace Martin Weber https://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace . PS2AI ps2ai pstoedit . (flattener) PostScript pstoedit PostScript ps2ai.ps Ghostscript . (<>) AI . ps2ai.ps . pstoedit . AI Mayura Draw (http://www.mayura.com) . Mayura . libplot(ter) ps2ai -f plot:ai . ps2ai Ghostscript 6.00 . METAPOST Scott MetaPost eofill PostScript . MetaPost eofill fill verbose . PostScript - (even-odd fill) . MetaPost : http://tug.org/metapost CONTEXT FREE - CFDG CFDG ( drvcfdg) PostScript ( CFDG ). CFDG . Context Free : http://www.contextfreeart.org LaTeX2E * picture LaTeX2e . PostScript -- (fills) ( <> <>) . TeX . ( eepic ). * PostScript <> . ( ) <> <> . <> . * nitlength <> . * <> . . * LaTeX2e picture PostScript . ( pdfLaTeX ). LaTeX2e . -- Scott LaTeX2e -- ( hyperref) . drvsampl.cpp drvsampl.h . drvbase.h drvfuncs.h . (ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES) PostScript pstoedit . GS PostScript . PostScript pstoedit : pstoedit -help -v. Ghostscript GS_FONTPATH GS_LIB Ghostscript . . pstoedit tempnam(3) . . tempnam(3) . TMPDIR DOS/WINDOWS TMP TEMP . (TROUBLE SHOOTING) pstoedit Ghostscript . : pstoedit -f ps infile.ps testfile.ps testfile.ps Ghostscript . PostScript pstoedit . . . PostScript PostScript . <<>> PostScript . pstoedit . : * lt - <> <> ( ) * string - <> <> ( ) * length - <> <> ( ) . (RESTRICTIONS) * ( TeX) -df . pstoedit . . . pstoedit '#' . -uchar . * pstoedit . * Gnuplot (rpl lwo rib) . * pstoedit (clipping) ( ). -sclip . . * Java ( java1 java2). java java . Java ( ) PostScript . HTML . contrib/java/java1/readme_java1.txt contrib/java/java2/readme_java2.htm . 1. O B TGIF/XFIG -dt (moveto) (eo)fill PostScript ( winding rule) . pstoedit . <<>> . 3.11 -ssp XFIG . 2. pstoedit PostScript dvips TeX . pstoedit TeX . . PostScript TeX LaTeX PostScript . (AUTHOR) Wolfgang Glunz, wglunz35_AT_pstoedit.net, https://de.linkedin.com/in/wolfgangglunz (CANONICAL ARCHIVE SITE) https://www.pstoedit.com pstoedit . pstoedit - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/pstoedit. (ACKNOWLEDGMENTS) * Klaus Steinberger Klaus.Steinberger_AT_physik.uni-muenchen.de . * Lar Kaufman 2.5 . * David B. Rosen rosen_AT_unr.edu PostScript ps2aplot . * Ian MacPhedran Ian_MacPhedran_AT_engr.USask.CA XFIG . * Carsten Hammer chammer_AT_hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de Gnuplot DXF . * Christoph Jaeschke OS/2 (MET) . Thomas Hoffmann thoffman_AT_zappa.sax.de OS/2 . * Jens Weber rz47b7_AT_PostAG.DE MS Windows (WMF) (GUI) . * G. Edward Johnson lorax_AT_nist.gov CGM Draw CGM . * Gerhard Kircher kircher_AT_edvz.tuwien.ac.at . * Bill Cheng bill.cheng_AT_acm.org TGIF TGIF . * Reini Urban rurban_AT_sbox.tu-graz.ac.at DXF . * Glenn M. Lewis glenn_AT_gmlewis.com RenderMan (RIB) Real3D (RPL) LightWave 3D (LWO) . * Piet van Oostrum piet_AT_cs.ruu.nl . * Lutz Vieweg lkv_AT_mania.robin.de . * Derek B. Noonburg derekn_AT_vw.ece.cmu.edu Rainer Dorsch rd_AT_berlepsch.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de core dump . * Rob Warner rcw2_AT_ukc.ac.uk pstoedit RiscOS . * Patrick Gosling jpmg_AT_eng.cam.ac.uk pstoedit SAFER Ghostscript . * Scott Pakin scott+ps2ed_AT_pakin.org Idraw autoconf. * Peter Katzmann p.katzmann_AT_thiesen.com HPGL. * Chris Cox ccox_AT_airmail.net Tcl/Tk . * Thorsten Behrens Thorsten_Behrens_AT_public.uni-hamburg.de Bjoern Petersen WMF. * Leszek Piotrowicz leszek_AT_sopot.rodan.pl XFIG GUI JAVA . * Egil Kvaleberg egil_AT_kvaleberg.no pic . * Kai-Uwe Sattler kus_AT_iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Kontour . * Scott Pakin, scott+ps2ed_AT_pakin.org MetaPost LaTeX2e MS PowerPoint . * MS PowerPoint ( pptx) libzip - https://libzip.org. MS Windows libzip libz DLL . libzip. libzip : https://libzip.org/license. * Burkhard Plaum plaum_AT_IPF.Uni-Stuttgart.de XFIG . * Bernhard Herzog herzog_AT_online.de sketch ( http://www.skencil.org ) * Rolf Niepraschk (niepraschk_AT_ptb.de) HTML LaTeX . UNIX HTML . * . . * Gisbert W. Selke (gisbert_AT_tapirsoft.de) Java 2. * Robert S. Maier (rsm_AT_math.arizona.edu) libplot libplot. * pstotext (mcjones_AT_pa.dec.com birrell_AT_pa.dec.com) PostScript . * Daniel Gehriger gehriger_AT_linkcad.com Spline DXF..TP * Allen Barnett libemf_AT_lignumcomputing.com libEMF WMF/EMF *nix . * Dave dave_AT_opaque.net libming SWF . * Masatake Yamoto autoconf automake libtool pstoedit * Bob Friesenhahn Magick++ ImageMagick. * Barak Pearlmutter Debian . * : Peter Deutsch Ken Sharp Chris Liddell GhostScript Artifex Russell Lang gsview_AT_ghostgum.com.au Ghostscript gsview. (LEGAL NOTICES) . pstoedit () . . pstoedit << >> (GPL) . . Ghostscript Artifex https://artifex.com. pstoedit Ghostscript (subprocess) . pstoedit . . 04 February 2026 PSTOEDIT(1)