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Is this Adobe Postscript?

I am doing a massive set of file conversions and several of them happen to be ".dat" files. When I open them I see that the first line is "%!PS-Adobe". Here's an example.....

%!PS-Adobe
^M%c$in
^M/c$in {72.0 mul} def
^M%DEFINE MARGINS
^M/C$LMAR .2    c$in def            %LEFT MARGIN
^M/C$RMAR 8.4   c$in def            %RIGHT MARGIN
^M/C$TMAR 10.8  c$in def            %TOP MARGIN
^M/C$BMAR .2    c$in def            %BOTTOM MARGIN
^M/C$CF /Courier def        %saves /Courier as C$CF

etc...

Am I correct in assuming that these are indeed Adobe Postscript files and ** NOT ** PDFs? How hard is it to convert these to PDF? I was thinking command line perl via ImageMagick or something but right now I'm a little stumped about what's been handed to me.

Thank you SO Much... Janie

Solution

  • You can convert these to PDF using Ghostscript and the pdfwrite device, or for simplicity the ps2pdf script supplied with Ghostscript.