Announcing:
python-ghostscript 0.3
A Python-Interface to the Ghostscript
C-API using ctypes
:Copyright: GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3)
:Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compiler.com>
:Homepage: http://bitbucket.org/htgoebel/python-ghostscript
:Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ghostscript
`Ghostscript`__, is a well known interpreter for the PostScript
language and for PDF. This package implements a interface to the
Ghostscript C-API using `ctypes`__. Both a low-level and a pythonic,
high-level interface are provided.
__ http://www.ghostscript.com/
__ http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html
This package is currently tested only under GNU/Linux. Please report
whether it works in your environment, too. Thanks.
Latest Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:0.3 (2010-08-12):
* Added support for win32: The DLL to load is searched in registry.
* On other platforms: Be more inteligent about finding Ghostscript
shared object file (fall back to ctypes.util.find_library() if
`libgs.8.so` can not be loaded
* Better error messages if lib/dll is not found.
* Removed relative imports, so older versions of Python can be used.
* Added nice project logo
:0.2 (2010-08-06):
* Fixed several bugs, esp. for running strings by Ghostscript.
Example
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here is an example for how to use the high-level interface of
`python-ghostscript`. This implements a very basic ps2pdf-tool::
import sys
import ghostscript
args = [
"ps2pdf", # actual value doesn't matter
"-dNOPAUSE", "-dBATCH", "-dSAFER",
"-sDEVICE=pdfwrite",
"-sOutputFile=" + sys.argv[1],
"-c", ".setpdfwrite",
"-f", sys.argv[2]
]
ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args)
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Regards
Hartmut Goebel
| Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com |
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