Re: [Pyobjc-dev] problem with launching pdf2tiff demo script

[Dinu G. <gh...@da...>]

Bob Ippolito:

>> As Ronald mentioned, it may work on GNUStep.
>
> I think GNUStep uses a version of Display PostScript, not Display PDF. 
>  I wouldn't be so sure that its NSImage (or whatever pdf2tiff uses) is 
> any good at loading PDFs.  If you want to rasterize PDFs, you should 
> look into Ghostscript ( http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ ) or something 
> of that nature.

Sorry for dropping in so late... If Bastien ia talking about the
pdf2tiff I wrote: yes it's using NSImage and NSPDFImageRep. It
also says pretty clearly (except on the command line) that it
works on OS X only.

As far as I remember, on NeXTSTEP there was no support for PDF,
and surely it didn't have Display PDF, but I think GNUstep does
actually want to mimick the parts of Cocoa which were not avail-
able in NS, too, doesn't it?

Well, if you find such a statement, please let me know. All I've
found is this (searching for GNUstep and NSPDFImageRep):
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2003-01/msg00290.html

Concerning Ghostscript: whenever I'm trying to use it I get very
quickly turned off by its command-line option universe before
I get anything done with it...

Dinu

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