StefanS42376868, if you want the usage of Ghostscript tools getting
standardized and the man pages improved, feel free to report an upstream
bug/feature request on http://bugs.ghostscript.com/.
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pdf2ps creates empty output
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241544
You received this bug
I see the non-standard behaviour of the ghostscript tools as quite
troublesome, because they are likely to be used in conjunction with
tools such as those provided by psutils, which behave as standard Unix
text processing utilities. This can lead to awkward pipelines such as
the following, which
Thanks a lot, that does it!
But as you mentioned, the documentation is misleading. Of course I had read
man pdf2ps before I submitted the problem report, but I expected that a
missing output argument would automatically be substituted by stdout.
Maybe you can add a hint in the man page?
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I think you will find the file ~/Report_a_bug_about_Ubuntu.ps containing
the output you wanted.
pdf2ps’s man page gives usage as:
pdf2ps [ options ] input.pdf [output.ps]
What it doesn’t mention is that if output.ps is not specified, input.ps
will be automatically created in the current
