Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> I needed to use pst-barcode in Latex templates with branches/1.2.
>
> Per pstricks documentation, pdflatex alone will not work. The latex,
> dvips, pstopdf workflow is required.
>
> Fortunately, this leads to a small de-duplication of code, see[1].
>
> However, the texlive-packaged pstopdf apparently lacks a quiet output
> mode, causing error[2]. Appending " > /dev/null" wasn't working for me,
> that probably redirected the output pdf.
>
> I worked around it by using the ghostscript-packaged ps2pdf utility, which
> works fine with the single argument and doesn't create a dependency
> problem for me personally, but it could be avoided.
>
> If anyone has an idea to silence or ignore pstopdf output in the system()
> call, perhaps this would be good commit to branches/1.2 and trunk,
> facilitating use of additional advanced-graphics CTAN packages.
How about using -o and -l? -o output filename (otherwise it is munged
from the input filename) and -l specifies that any messages generated
during file conversion be written to a log file (/dev/null).
Untested. Just a theory.
Rod
--
>
> Let me know if I should commit a variation of [1].
>
> [1] LedgerSMB/Form.pm | 37 ++++++++++++++-----------------------
> 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/LedgerSMB/Form.pm b/LedgerSMB/Form.pm
> index 85aec60..192ea06 100755
> --- a/LedgerSMB/Form.pm
> +++ b/LedgerSMB/Form.pm
> @@ -971,40 +971,31 @@ sub parse_template {
> $self->{errfile} =~ s/tex$/err/;
>
> my $r = 1;
> - if ( $self->{format} eq 'postscript' ) {
>
> - system(
> + system(
> "latex --interaction=nonstopmode $self->{tmpfile} > $self->{errfile}"
> );
>
> - while ( $self->rerun_latex ) {
> - system(
> + while ( $self->rerun_latex ) {
> + system(
> "latex --interaction=nonstopmode $self->{tmpfile} > $self->{errfile}"
> );
> - last if ++$r > 4;
> - }
> + last if ++$r > 4;
> + }
>
> - $self->{tmpfile} =~ s/tex$/dvi/;
> - $self->error( $self->cleanup ) if !( -f $self->{tmpfile} );
> + $self->{tmpfile} =~ s/tex$/dvi/;
> + $self->error( $self->cleanup ) if !( -f $self->{tmpfile} );
>
> - system("dvips $self->{tmpfile} -o -q");
> - $self->error( $self->cleanup . "dvips : $!" ) if ($?);
> - $self->{tmpfile} =~ s/dvi$/ps/;
> - }
> + system("dvips $self->{tmpfile} -o -q");
> + $self->error( $self->cleanup . "dvips : $!" ) if ($?);
> + $self->{tmpfile} =~ s/dvi$/ps/;
>
> + # convert postscript to pdf
> if ( $self->{format} eq 'pdf' ) {
> - system(
> -"pdflatex --interaction=nonstopmode $self->{tmpfile} > $self->{errfile}"
> - );
> -
> - while ( $self->rerun_latex ) {
> - system(
> -"pdflatex --interaction=nonstopmode $self->{tmpfile} > $self->{errfile}"
> - );
> - last if ++$r > 4;
> - }
>
> - $self->{tmpfile} =~ s/tex$/pdf/;
> + system("ps2pdf $self->{tmpfile}");
> + $self->error( $self->cleanup . "ps2pdf :$!" ) if ($?);
> + $self->{tmpfile} =~ s/ps$/pdf/;
> $self->error( $self->cleanup ) if !( -f $self->{tmpfile} );
> }
> }
>
>
>
> [2] malformed header from script.
> Bad header=PsToPdf | converting ps (ps) i: is.pl
>
>
>
>
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