ghostscript

Author:: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compiler.com>
Version:: 0.3
Copyright:: GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3)
Homepage:: http://bitbucket.org/htgoebel/python-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.

This package is currently tested only under GNU/Linux and Windows XP. 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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