Bug#356470: (no subject)

[Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@debian.org>]

tags 356470 + patch
stop

This patch makes it possible for pdf2ps to use a redirect to standard output
instead of the the output file name i.e. "pdf2ps test.pdf > test.ps" instead
of "pdf2ps test.pdf test.ps".

--- pdf2ps.orig	2007-02-28 18:18:06.000000000 -0700
+++ pdf2ps	2007-02-28 18:23:17.000000000 -0700
@@ -16,18 +16,24 @@
 	shift
 done
 
-if [ $# -eq 2 ] 
+if [ -t 1 ]
 then
-    outfile=$2
-elif [ $# -eq 1 ]
-then
-    outfile=`basename "$1" \.pdf`.ps
+    if [ $# -eq 2 ]
+    then
+        outfile=$2
+    elif [ $# -eq 1 ]
+    then
+        outfile=`basename "$1" \.pdf`.ps
+    else
+        echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-dASCII85EncodePages=false] [-dLanguageLevel=1|2|3] input.pdf [output.ps]" 1>&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    OUTFILE="-sOutputFile=$outfile"
 else
-    echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-dASCII85EncodePages=false] [-dLanguageLevel=1|2|3] input.pdf [output.ps]" 1>&2
-    exit 1
+    OUTFILE="-sOutputFile=%stdout%"
 fi
 
 # Doing an initial 'save' helps keep fonts from being flushed between pages.
 # We have to include the options twice because -I only takes effect if it
 # appears before other options.
-exec $GS_EXECUTABLE $OPTIONS -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite $OUTFILE "-sOutputFile=$outfile" $OPTIONS -c save pop -f "$1"
+exec $GS_EXECUTABLE $OPTIONS -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite $OUTFILE $OPTIONS -c save pop -f "$1"