One likely cause for your inability to copy text from the PDF could be the font type (and encoding) that ended up being used and embedded in your PDF file. So, which is the version of Ghostscript installed on your system? (Remember, ps2pdf calls Ghostscript, it will not work without a locally installed gs executable.)

Thirdly, Ghostscript gained a lot of additional power and control, and had a few bugs or weak spots removed over the last few years when it comes to outputing PDF. Second, without exactly knowing how exactly your PS input file is conditioned, it is difficult to give you good advice: Does your PS have embedded the fonts it uses? Which type of fonts are they? etc. (You can tweak a few parameters with ps2pdf - but then you are already so much closer to run the real Ghostscript command already.) ps2pdf it takes away a lot of potential control you could have if you used Ghostscript. Ghostscript has many more options, but it is more difficult to learn. Is that correct?)įirst of all, most likely your ps2pdf is only a shellscript, which internally uses a Ghostscript command with some default parameters to do the real work. ps2pdf is a work-alike for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobes AcrobatTM DistillerTM product: it converts PostScript files to.

(I'm assuming your phrase of vice-versa isn't meant to point to a 'round-trip' conversion of the very same file, but the general direction of conversion for any PS file. I'm just covering the PS->PDF conversion.

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