2015 was a paid for release of Acrobat (first called '12'!) It had updates but no new features.

To understand 20 look at the commercial software. If you want (or need) to play with these options there is a lot of documentation & you can ask questions on is sometimes 'everything since 2015' and sometimes it means just the continuous version. This works the best for me without having to fiddle with the various options that these tools offer. Sometimes the ps2pdf tools are unsuccessful and the pstopdf tool works.Ĭonvert pdf's with pdf2ps and convert the resulting PostScript file to pdf with pstopdf. There's also a pstopdf tool installed by Apple that can convert PostScript to pdf. ps2pdf per se currently produces PDF 1.4 output. ps2pdf14 will always produce PDF 1.4 output (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible). ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible). Pdf2ps allows you to specify which PS-level you want your output to be in.įrom its manpage - ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible). The homebrew way brew install ghostscript or brew install gs (both do the same thing) installs a much smaller ghostscript package.Įither way you'll end up with the conversion tools.

The MacTeX way gives you a 3 GB installer that will install by default a ghostscript package & lots of other things like a TeX folder in your /Applications folder.

You can install Ghostscript with homebrew.

Ps2pdf input.ps output.pdf to convert to a pdf file

pdf2ps input.pdf output.ps to convert to a PostScript file.

You could try the Ghostscript tools pdf2ps & ps2pdf from the commandline.

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