[Ql-Users] Ghostscript
I have received a query from a user in Italy concerning viewing PDF files on QL systems. AFAIK, Jonathan Hudson’s Ghostscript port is probably the only utility able to do this, and probably only older PDF files. Anyone with experience of this so I can give some form of answer to help him? Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Ghostscript
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:13:02PM +0100, Dilwyn Jones wrote: I have received a query from a user in Italy concerning viewing PDF files on QL systems. AFAIK, Jonathan Hudson’s Ghostscript port is probably the only utility able to do this, and probably only older PDF files. Anyone with experience of this so I can give some form of answer to help him? Unlikely to ever happen at any form of decent speed, even on StrongARM we had to have a highly optimised special fixed point version of PDF library poppler to get anywhere near sane speed. Modern PDFs are all heavy floating point users. Graeme ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
RE: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
Hi,
Thanks again. I have again tried it with this on the gs command line :
which should be identical to what you suggested
gslp -pram1_test_bas ram1_test.ps
I get : error undefined in gslp
Is there something that needs to be set in the gslp file from the
defaults?
Duncan Neithercut
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John
Southern
Sent: 23 April 2005 00:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
On Friday 22 April 2005 21:51, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
Thanks but thats the manual seems to say what I have been using
without success. do you need to specify an output device or font in
the
command line as well?
No to both questions. I have just run it here and as you can see below
it
generates a postscript file.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ ls
test.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ gslp -pfishstick.ps test.txt
Printing test.txt
Page height = 71.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ ls
fishstick.ps test.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ cat test.txt
test file
1
2
3
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ cat fishstick.ps
%!
/B {save 3 1 roll translate /X 0 def} def
/BL {save 3 1 roll 90 rotate translate /X 0 def} def
/E {showpage restore} def
/V {neg X exch moveto} def
/M {/X 2 index def neg moveto} def
/S {currentfile =string readline pop show} def
/RE {findfont dup length dict begin {1 index /FID ne {def} {pop pop}
ifelse}
forall /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def currentdict end definefont} def
/BFont /Courier-ISOLatin1 /Courier RE 10 scalefont def
/HFont /Courier-Bold-ISOLatin1 /Courier-Bold RE 10 scalefont def
50.4 784.812866 B
HFont setfont
-13.04 V
S test.txt
170.4 -13.04 M
S Sat Apr 23 00:37:32 BST 2005
460.8 -13.04 M
S page 1
BFont setfont
0 18.5 M
S test file
29 V
S 1
39.5 V
S 2
50 V
S 3
E
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$
John S
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Re: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
On Friday 22 April 2005 19:15, Duncan Neithercut wrote: Anyone an expert on Ghostscript. Have installed it on my Q60, and it works very well, prints postscript files and text and graphics. It comes with some utility scripts one of which gslp.ps allows the printing of text files directly to the printer without conversion to postscript. This works well also. My problem is that this script should also convert text files to postscript as a file. When I try to do this according to the manual I get an error message indicating that I have not passed it all the info it needs to do the job yet it has been set up according to the manual. Has anyone used it or GS generally? Try the following gslp -ptest.ps test.txt This uses the Ghostscript line printer to generate the postscript file called test.ps from the test.txt file. John S ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
On Friday 22 April 2005 21:51, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
Thanks but thats the manual seems to say what I have been using
without success. do you need to specify an output device or font in
the
command line as well?
No to both questions. I have just run it here and as you can see below it
generates a postscript file.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ ls
test.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ gslp -pfishstick.ps test.txt
Printing test.txt
Page height = 71.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ ls
fishstick.ps test.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ cat test.txt
test file
1
2
3
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$ cat fishstick.ps
%!
/B {save 3 1 roll translate /X 0 def} def
/BL {save 3 1 roll 90 rotate translate /X 0 def} def
/E {showpage restore} def
/V {neg X exch moveto} def
/M {/X 2 index def neg moveto} def
/S {currentfile =string readline pop show} def
/RE {findfont dup length dict begin {1 index /FID ne {def} {pop pop} ifelse}
forall /Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def currentdict end definefont} def
/BFont /Courier-ISOLatin1 /Courier RE 10 scalefont def
/HFont /Courier-Bold-ISOLatin1 /Courier-Bold RE 10 scalefont def
50.4 784.812866 B
HFont setfont
-13.04 V
S test.txt
170.4 -13.04 M
S Sat Apr 23 00:37:32 BST 2005
460.8 -13.04 M
S page 1
BFont setfont
0 18.5 M
S test file
29 V
S 1
39.5 V
S 2
50 V
S 3
E
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stella$
John S
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RE: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
Thanks but thats the manual seems to say what I have been using without success. do you need to specify an output device or font in the command line as well? Duncan Neithercut -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Southern Sent: 22 April 2005 19:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0 On Friday 22 April 2005 19:15, Duncan Neithercut wrote: Anyone an expert on Ghostscript. Have installed it on my Q60, and it works very well, prints postscript files and text and graphics. It comes with some utility scripts one of which gslp.ps allows the printing of text files directly to the printer without conversion to postscript. This works well also. My problem is that this script should also convert text files to postscript as a file. When I try to do this according to the manual I get an error message indicating that I have not passed it all the info it needs to do the job yet it has been set up according to the manual. Has anyone used it or GS generally? Try the following gslp -ptest.ps test.txt This uses the Ghostscript line printer to generate the postscript file called test.ps from the test.txt file. John S ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[ql-users] Ghostscript 6.0
Hi Anyone an expert on Ghostscript. Have installed it on my Q60, and it works very well, prints postscript files and text and graphics. It comes with some utility scripts one of which gslp.ps allows the printing of text files directly to the printer without conversion to postscript. This works well also. My problem is that this script should also convert text files to postscript as a file. When I try to do this according to the manual I get an error message indicating that I have not passed it all the info it needs to do the job yet it has been set up according to the manual. Has anyone used it or GS generally? Duncan Neithercut ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
