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
: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)
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Regards
Hartmut Goebel
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