Announcing: python-ghostscript 0.3

[Hartmut Goebel]

Announcing:

			python-ghostscript 0.3

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

:Copyright: GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3)
:Author:  Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel at 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:0.3 (2010-08-12):

  * Added support for win32: The DLL to load is searched in registry.

  * On other platforms: Be more inteligent about finding Ghostscript
    shared object file (fall back to ctypes.util.find_library() if
    `libgs.8.so` can not be loaded

  * Better error messages if lib/dll is not found.

  * Removed relative imports, so older versions of Python can be used.

  * Added nice project logo

:0.2 (2010-08-06):

  * Fixed several bugs, esp. for running strings by Ghostscript.


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)

-- 
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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