Re: How do I pipe tiff2ps output into ps2pdf?

From: Brendan S (Scratch User) (gobnat_at_optusnet.com.au)
Date: 04/05/05 

Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:53:06 +1000

Robert Newson wrote:
> Brendan S (Scratch User) wrote:
>
>> I had thought it would be something simple like:
>>
>> tiff2ps -a test.tif | ps2pdf > test.pdf
>>
>> But this tells me that Usage: ps2pdfwr [options...] (input.[e]ps|-)
>> [output.pdf|-]
>
>
> The minus only arg is often used to mean stdin, try:
>
> % tiff2ps -a test.tif | ps2pdf - > test.pdf
>

That works. You are a star.

Thanks very much.

Brendan