Using Ghostscript DLL via ctypes in Py2.3/Win

[Adam Twardoch]

I've written a simple commanline wrapper for calling GhostScript from
Python. It uses os.system under Windows and os.popen under unixes. The call
looks basically like this:

gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER ps2ai.ps infile.eps >outfile.ai

I'd prefer to use the GhostScript DLL API* and call it using ctypes under
Windows. This way, I could package just the DLL with my application and the
user would not necessarily need to install the full GhostScript. However, I
don't really know how to handle ctypes very well.

Has anyone perhaps written something like that already and cares to share a
code snippet?

Regards,
Adam

*) http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/API.htm

 

[Peter Hansen]

I'd prefer to use the GhostScript DLL API* and call it using ctypes under
Windows.
Has anyone perhaps written something like that already and cares to share a
code snippet?

There is a ctypes mailing list where you might have more success getting
a reply (though I suspect most people there read this forum as well).

-Peter