Interface to the Ghostscript C-API, both high- and low-level, based on ctypes
Project description
- Version:
- Version 0.2
- Copyright:
- GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3)
- Homepage:
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.
This package is currently tested only under GNU/Linux. Please report whether it works in your environment, too. Thanks.
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)
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 2.3 or higher (tested with Python 2.6)
- ctypes when using Python 2.3 or 2.4 (ctypes is already
included in Python 2.5 and higher)
setuptools or distribute for installation (see below).
Ghostscript Version 8.x
Installing python-ghostscript
Since this package is meant for developers, we assume you have experience in installing Python packages.
python-ghostscript is listed on PyPI (Python Package Index), so you can install it using easy_install or pip as usual. Please refer to the manuals of easy_install resp. pip for further information.
Alternatively you may download and unpack the source package of python-ghostscript from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ghostscript and run:
python ./setup.py install
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