Merge PS documents to PDF

Node.js API solution to combine several PostScript files into a single PDF file

 

Merging PostScript (PS) files into a single PDF document offers several significant advantages, primarily revolving around usability, distribution, and archiving. While PS is excellent for describing print jobs, it has limitations as a general-purpose document format. Aspose.Page API solution for Node.js provides you with such the merging functionality.

The following code example demonstrates how to merge PostScript files using Node.js. If you need to learn how this functionality can be integrated into a web solution or to merge files online, you can try the cross-platform PS Merger tool.

Aspose.Page for Node.js API, which is a feature-rich, powerful, and easy-to-use document manipulation and conversion API for Node.js solution.

To merge PS and EPS files, you need:

Steps to merge PostScript files with Node.js

  1. Create file reader ‘const file_reader = new FileReader();’ and read file ‘file_reader.readAsArrayBuffer(e.target.files[0]);’
  2. Load needed files by using AsposePagePrepare .
  3. After the loading of the last file, call AsposePSMergeToPdf and pass the array of file names, the result file name, and SuppressError boolean values to it.
PS to PDF Conversion

Merge Encapsulated PostScript files with Node.js

To merge EPS to PDF you will need to take the same steps as for PS to PDF merging. To learn a more detailed code example, go to Aspose.Page Documentation .

PS What is PS File Format

PS format is one of the page description language (PDL) formats. It is capable to contain graphic as well as text information on the page. That is why the format was supported by most of the programs for image editing. The postscript file itself is a kind of instruction for printers. It contains information on what and how to print from its page.