Announcing: python-ghostscript 0.7
A Python-Interface to the Ghostscript C-API using ctypes :License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+) :Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compiler.com> :Homepage: https://gitlab.com/pdftools/python-ghostscript :Download: https://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. Changes since last release ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * BREAKING: ``Ghostscript()`` no longer allows passing arbitrary keyword arguments. * The high-level interface now allows passing unicode strings as arguments. Passing bytes as arguments is still possible, but now deprecated. * The high-level interface now requires ghostscript >= 9.0.8 (released 2013-08-14). * Allow multiple Ghostscript instances. Actually using this requires the library is compiled with -DGS_THREADSAFE. * Ensure proper clean-up on error. * High-level revision() now returns unicode strings instead of byte strings. * Add low-level interface for set_arg_encoding(). * Miscellaneous small fixes. * Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5. Minimum required Python version is now 3.6. 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) -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible | _______________________________________________ Python-announce-list mailing list -- python-announce-list@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-announce-list-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-announce-list.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
