David Kastrup: > k...@aspodata.se writes: > > David Kastrup: ... > "taking care of PostScript" is not related to converting LilyPond's > graphics internals to Cairo since LilyPond's graphics internals are not > written in PostScript.
Ok, forget it then, you are not listening. ... > When processing in general will get moved to Cairo, ... You make it sound like it is already decided. ... > > PostScript is a programming language suited for printing and other > > things. Why youldn't I like to have that readable and understandable > > like any other code ? > > Because it is employed as an intermediate format not intended for human > consumption and manipulation? It's similar to the role of LilyPond in a > Denemo workflow. It's nice for debugging when it's somewhat readable, > but the files created in it are ephemeral. ... Fine, I also want them to be easy to debug. PS is not ephemeral for me. ... > You are not supposed to get started at writing PDF. Instead the PDF > gets written by programs. You are fine with letting your PDF be written > by Ghostscript rather than LilyPond and not looking at it. What is the > difference with PostScript in your workflow that makes it different? You don't listen, I use the PS as is, not doing any conversion to pdf unless someone else wants them. And my interest was in reading pdf's, so I can write programs to extract the info I want from pdf's. I took up the subject to show that the goal of computer-readability and processability is not reached. > > I have tried to find some free lib to use to read pdf's, if you know > > of one please tell me, preferable for perl. > > libpoppler? Yes, but it is barely documented, makes it hard to use. > > Currently I'm using "pdftohtml --xml", but there is a few things > > missing with that solution. > > > > I know about poppler, citing: > > https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/poppler/ > > // > > Documentation > > > > There is currently very little documentation. > > // > > > > Soo, the computer-readability is a nice goal, but not so much > > attained. > > Well, there isn't a free lib for reading PostScript, is there? I do have an editor. > I mean, how much is ps2pdf documented? ... Ok, you don't know then, so much for computer-readability and processability. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
