On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 14:17:03 -0700 Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/06/2014 02:02 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to convert pdf to eps using > > > > pdf2ps -eps file.pdf > > > > but I get the following: > > > > Unknown switch -eps - ignoring > > Unknown switch -eps - ignoring > > > > I seem to think that this worked just fine a month ago, but maybe I > > used some other switch. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Sorry for so much quoting, but there was no way to trim it further > without loss of context. > > man pdf2ps > > tells you that there are options that can be used, but doesn't list > them. (Is it worth opening a bugzilla against the man page for this?) > > [joe@khorlia ~]$ pdf2ps --help > Usage: pdf2ps [-dASCII85EncodePages=false] [-dLanguageLevel=1|2|3] > input.pdf [output.ps] > > shows that -eps is not a valid switch or option for this program. HTH, > HAND. True. But if you do a search on it online (using DuckDuckGo, but why should that matter?) I find that the above should produce the desired result. Meanwhile, I accidentally found a substitute way: pdf2ps file.pdf ps2eps file.ps Which still does not explain why something that I tried out a month ago has become inapplicable. Many thanks!! Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ Protect your computer files with professional cloud backup. Get PCRx Backup and upload unlimited files automatically. Learn more at http://backup.pcrx.com/mail -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
