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| From | Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> |
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| Subject | Re: Using postscript in Java |
| Date | Fri, 27 May 2016 15:30:16 +0200 |
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On Friday 27 May 2016 14:21 CEST, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 7:43:49 AM UTC-4, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> At the moment I am using Ghostscript (from a Bash script) to render
>> postscript to a PDF file. What is the best way to do this from
>> Java?
>
> I looked into it once, as I recall there should be an API for
> Ghostscript, which hasn't been updated in years. What is the purpose
> for it? Do you have to start with postscript? If not there are much
> better ways of making PDFs. FOP and iText are the most popular APIs
> for producing PDFs. pdfbox has some functionality for producing PDF
> but is more for using PDFs as input.
I use it for creating things like:
http://mob-com.nl/account_history_info.php?order_id=73908
https://www.facebook.com/TimeManagementTipsAndSkills/photos/a.301775443228177.69771.104189696320087/902472369825145
I especially have defined quit a few borders. Would a bit of work to
translate those I am afraid.
> If you already have a script you could just as well execute system
> commands from Java.
I would like to make things like that easier.
I also would like to make it system independent, so other people could
use it also.
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
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Using postscript in Java Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 13:33 +0200
Re: Using postscript in Java Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-27 05:21 -0700
Re: Using postscript in Java Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2016-05-27 15:30 +0200
Re: Using postscript in Java Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-05-27 21:08 -0400
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