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Sorry if I confused you. Yes, there IS a command that it puting .ps output into my pipe (it is command from a mapping program, but don't worry about that). The command and error message is below. [8:21][chris ~/plots]%pstext -R0/7/0/7 -JX7i -P -B1g1 -G255/128/0 | pspdf test.pdf 2001-10-22...

All I will say is thanks Jadey.:D now back to my semi-problem... so the new command I have is ... $ | ps2pdf - ./test.pdf ; pdf ./test.pdf where I am piping .ps output through ps2pdf to convert it, and then opening the pdf with preview.app. This works terrific if I type it all out...

:mad: ouch! why don't you respond a little more harshly? I used these same commands with 10.0.4 and they worked fine. It seems to almost work in 10.1, but it seems like preview.app is trying to open the file before it is fully converted to a pdf. My question is how can I combine these two...

I don't know what is happening, but in this specific case it seems to me that the 'pipe' command is the problem. I am trying to convert a postscript file into a pdf file (using ghostscript 7) and open it in preview.app using my "pdf" alias command. [15:10][chris ~/plots]%ps2pdf ./test.ps...

So I downloaded GS 6.51 from SourceForge, read all the docs, and compiled ghostscript. It looks like it compiled correctly (no compiling errors on screen). However, when I try to use the ps2pdf command it doesn't work... [chris] %ps2pdfwr ./alphabet.ps ./alphabet.pdf **** Unable to open the...