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How to execute postscript file to a particular page number?

I have postscript file of 100 lines. I'm trying to merge 2 pdfs in to the single one with the help of ghostscript. What I want to do is, merge both pdf into one and than apply my postscript code in following manner:

1) first 50 lines of the postscript file should be applied on only page 1 of the generated pdf

2) remaining 50 lines to be applied on the 2nd page of the generated pdf.

I have used following code to do that:

gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf test.ps pdf_1.pdf pdf_2.pdf;

I have tried showpage option of postscript, but that insert a blank page in the generated output pdf and that's not my requirement.

Any one knows how can I do that ?

Solution

  • You can break down the PS code in to multiple iteration. Just create one pdf with one part of PS code and then generate another pdf with remaining part of PS. After doing that you can merge both PDF with the help of ghost script and get the desire output.

    I know this is not a wise solution, but for the time you can move ahead with that.

    Thanks