PDF To Postscript

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 08:53 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > PyPDF (and others) provide a very nice mechanism for creating and
> > manipulating PDF documents.  Is there any *Python* module or technique
> > to turn a PDF document into Postscript [to print, for example]?
> Considering your post is currently the top Google hit for " "pdf to
> postscript" python ", this seems unlikely. :-(

True.  I've found the "ghostscript" module which integrates with the GS
application via ctypes.  It 'works' but currently there is an issue with
redirected stdin/stdout [processing streams].

<https://bitbucket.org/htgoebel/python-ghostscript>

> From what I can gather, it seems using the pdftops program from xpdf
> or poppler (or the lesser, distinct pdf2ps program) is the way people
> go about handling this.

Yep, which is a sad and fragile hack.