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@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)