Java/ Convert PDF to PostScript

Postscript is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language that describes the appearance of a printed page. Owing to its faster printing and improved quality, sometime you may need to convert a PDF document to Postscript. This article will introduce how to accomplish this task using Free Spire.PDF for Java.

Import JAR Dependency

● You can download the free API and unzip it. Then add the Spire.Pdf.jar file to your project as dependency.
● Or you can directly add the jar dependency to maven project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>com.e-iceblue</id>
        <name>e-iceblue</name>
        <url>https://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
        <artifactId>spire.pdf.free</artifactId>
        <version>4.3.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Sample Code

The detailed steps and sample code to convert PDF to PostScript are as follows:

• Create a PdfDocument object.
• Load a sample PDF file using PdfDocument.loadFromFile() method.
• Save the document as PostScript using PdfDocument.saveToFile() method.

import com.spire.pdf.*;

public class PDFToPS {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        //Load a pdf document
        PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
        doc.loadFromFile("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\Travel.pdf");

        //Convert to PostScript file
        doc.saveToFile("output.ps", FileFormat.POSTSCRIPT);

    }
}