Announcing:

python-ghostscript 0.7

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

:License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+) :Author:  Hartmut Goebel h.goebel@crazy-compiler.com :Homepage: https://gitlab.com/pdftools/python-ghostscript :Download: https://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.

Changes since last release ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* BREAKING: ``Ghostscript()`` no longer allows passing arbitrary   keyword arguments.

* The high-level interface now allows passing unicode strings as   arguments. Passing bytes as arguments is still possible, but now   deprecated.

* The high-level interface now requires ghostscript >= 9.0.8 (released   2013-08-14).

* Allow multiple Ghostscript instances. Actually using this requires   the library is compiled with -DGS_THREADSAFE.

* Ensure proper clean-up on error.

* High-level revision() now returns unicode strings instead of byte   strings.

* Add low-level interface for set_arg_encoding().

* Miscellaneous small fixes.

* Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5.   Minimum required Python version is now 3.6.

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)