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)

Here an example for passing a string document to Ghostscript:

doc = """%!
/Helvetica findfont 20 scalefont setfont
50 50 moveto
(Hello World) show
showpage
"""

import ghostscript

args = """test.py
     -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/tmp/out.pdf
     -c .setpdfwrite""".split()

GS = ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args)
try:
    GS.run_string(doc)
finally:
    GS.exit()

More examples can be found in the examples subdirectory of the distribution archive.

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

python ./setup.py install