Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:46:53PM +0300, Nigel Ridley wrote: >> Thanks for pointing out the 'obvious_mistake'. However it still produces >> errors (my original file that I am wanting to reduce in size is named >> 'Example.pdf'): >> >> nigel at laptop:~/Hamaayan/Example$ pdftops -level3 -paper match "$Example" >> - >> | gsc -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook >> -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true >> -sOutputFile="$example.pdf" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -c .setpdfwrite - >> Error: Couldn't open file '' > > Looks like your "gsc" is something else than "ghostscript". Try using > "gs" instead.
nigel at laptop:~/Hamaayan/Example$ pdftops -level3 -paper match "$Example" - | gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -sOutputFile="$example.pdf" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -c .setpdfwrite - Error: Couldn't open file '' nigel at laptop:~/Hamaayan/Example$ nigel at laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install gs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gs 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 27.5kB of archives. After this operation, 69.6kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main gs 8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3 [27.5kB] Fetched 27.5kB in 0s (52.6kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package gs. (Reading database ... 175673 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gs (from .../gs_8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3_all.deb) ... Setting up gs (8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3) ... nigel at laptop:~$ nigel at laptop:~/Hamaayan/Example$ pdftops -level3 -paper match "$Example" - | gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -sOutputFile="$example.pdf" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -c .setpdfwrite - Error: Couldn't open file '' nigel at laptop:~/Hamaayan/Example$ > > What does gsc --help say, just out of curiosity? nigel at laptop:~$ gsc --help *** WARNING -- Unknown or improperly placed option: "-help" nigel at laptop:~$ apt-cache policy gsc W: Unable to locate package gsc nigel at laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install gsc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package gsc nigel at laptop:~$ apt-cache policy ghostscript ghostscript: Installed: 8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3 Version table: *** 8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status nigel at laptop:~$ > > HTH, > > Tino. > Not sure what to say - perhaps it's a Ubuntu thing...? Blessings, Nigel -- PrayingForIsrael.net http://www.prayingforisrael.net/
