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Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro
From: |
Bernd Warken |
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Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:38:06 +0200 |
> Von: "Peter Schaffter" <address@hidden>
> Attached is a proposal for a general use PDFPIC macro. It's
> modelled after and takes exactly the same arguments as PSPIC.
>
> Since there's no groff pdf equivalent to .psbb, an external
> program is used to get the image dimensions (pdfinfo(1) from the
> poppler-utils package). The alternative is to require users to get
> the dimensions themselves and make width/height required arguments.
> I prefer not to take that approach since my idea is that PSPIC and
> PDFPIC should behave identically, making everybody's life easier.
>
> In the case of PDFPIC not being used with gropdf(1), an external
> program (pstopdf(1)) is used to convert the pdf file to eps, whence
> processing is passed over to PSPIC. This seemed simpler than
> re-inventing the wheel.
>
> Comments and suggestions, please.
That seems to be useful for `glilypond' (`lilypond' musical scores
within groff), which has so far several troubles with PSPIC.
I hope, PDFPIC will be accepted.
Bernd Warken
- [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro,
Bernd Warken <=
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/20
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/20