ghostscript 0.7

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 locale
import ghostscript

args = [
    "ps2pdf", # actual value doesn't matter
    "-dNOPAUSE", "-dBATCH", "-dSAFER",
    "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite",
    "-sOutputFile=" + sys.argv[1],
    "-c", ".setpdfwrite",
    "-f",  sys.argv[2]
    ]

# arguments have to be bytes, encode them
encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
args = [a.encode(encoding) for a in args]

ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args)

Here an example for passing a string document to Ghostscript:

doc = b"""%!
/Helvetica findfont 20 scalefont setfont
50 50 moveto
(Hello World) show
showpage
quit
"""

import ghostscript

args = b"""test.py
     -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/tmp/out.pdf
     -c .setpdfwrite""".split()

with ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args) as gs:
    gs.run_string(doc)

More examples can be found in the examples subdirectory of the distribution archive.

Requirements and Installation

Please note:

This package is meant for developers. Even if there are some usable examples included, installations instructions are meant for developers.

python-ghostscript requires

• Python 3.6 or higher (tested with Python 3.6–3.9)

• setuptools for installation (see below)

• Ghostscript Version 9.0.8 or higher

python ./setup.py install