ps2pdf: preserve page size

Question

I have myfile.ps with a vector image included. But when I run

ps2pdf myfile.ps

it seems that the output page size is A4: the vecto

Answer 1

I am not allowed to comment, but I must warn everyone that all the current answers are vulnerable to malicious postscript files.

Using gs like this is VERY dangerous. ps2pdf internally uses the -dSAFER option which would, for example, prevent an untrusted postscript file from encrypting your files and rendering a pdf that demands a ransom payment from you for the decryption key! ALWAYS use -dSAFER!

While -o outputFile.pdf is nice, it is also undocumented (via man page or gs -h) as of version 9.23.

The below command works without worrying about the top being cut off like with the other solutions:

gs -sOutputFile=file.pdf -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dSAFER file.ps

-sPAPERSIZE=a4 is how the a4 paper size is specified.

to get the page size you can look for a line like the following:

%%PageBoundingBox:·12·12·583·830

and then use

gs -sOutputFile=file.pdf -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -g583x830 -r72 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dSAFER file.ps

and it works perfectly.