[ANN] python-ghostscript 0.4

[Hartmut Goebel]

Announcing:

python-ghostscript 0.4

A Python-Interface to the Ghostscript
C-API using ctypes

:Copyright: GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3)
:Author: Hartmut Goebel <[email protected]>
:Homepage: http://bitbucket.org/htgoebel/python-ghostscript
ownload: 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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