How can I use Ghostscript to convert PS to PDF?
The GSview GUI Open the PS file in GSview, select Convert… from the File menu, select pdfwrite as the Device and other options to taste. This works well, and may be convenient for occasional conversions, but it is overkill. The ps2pdf command Ghostscript includes ps2pdf.bat for Windows, although the installation does not automatically make the command available. It is necessary to include the Ghostscript lib and bin directories in the Windows execution path. You can do this explicitly, e.g. by editing the file c:\autoexec.bat. Or you can use another “indirect ” command file that sets the execution path and then runs the Ghostscript ps2pdf command. The indirect command file can be put anywhere in the default execution path or in the current directory. Two example indirect command files are ps2pdf.bat and ps2pdfa4.bat. (If you download them, add the .bat extension by hand when you save them.) These are set up for a typical default installation of Aladdin Ghostscript 7.00; the second fo
