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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

#34401 — Using postscript in Java

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?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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#34403

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.

If you already have a script you could just as well execute system commands from Java.

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#34405

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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#34411

On 5/27/2016 7:33 AM, 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?

If you can live with GS then maybe:
   http://www.ghost4j.org/

Arne

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