pdftops, pdftops, pdf2ps

[hruodr]

graphics/xpdf and graphics/poppler-utils each bring a pdftops program.
print/ghostscript9-agpl-base brings a script pdf2ps.

# ll /usr/local/libexec/xpdf/pdftops /usr/local/bin/pdftops /usr/local/bin/pdf2ps
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      909 May 16 06:08 /usr/local/bin/pdf2ps*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    21208 Jun 25 02:01 /usr/local/bin/pdftops*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1641728 May 16 23:43 /usr/local/libexec/xpdf/pdftops*

I remember that I got better results with than with the other, but I do not remember exactly what was it. What is your experience with these programs?

 

[hruodr]

I just converted a 3 pages pdf to ps with the programs of graphics/xpdf, graphics/poppler
and print/ghostscript9 respectively:

# ll tmp*
-rw-r--r--  1 user0  user0  413327 Jul  1 17:48 tmp1.ps
-rw-r--r--  1 user0  user0  413645 Jul  1 17:49 tmp2.ps
-rw-r--r--  1 user0  user0  269764 Jul  1 17:50 tmp3.ps

The one with pdf2ps is much smaller, but when I read it with gv and spring from one
page to other, I eventually get an error.