[ANN] python-ghostscript 0.4

Sat Jan 29 09:27:26 EST 2011

Announcing:
			python-ghostscript 0.4
		A Python-Interface to the Ghostscript
			 C-API using ctypes
:Copyright: GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3)
:Author: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel at 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 * Fixed bug: typo in function call name ctypes.util.find_library
 * (Unix) No longer try to load a specific version (version 8) of
 libgs.so
 * Added low-level interface for set_stdio() plus wrappers for
 file handles
 * (win32) Improved search for best Ghostscript installation:
 Consider Aladdin and GNU Ghostscript, too; Check for existence of
 DLL found in registry; take highest version available.
 * Added win32 example-batch file for testing and other
 improvements/fixes on examples an documentation.
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
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