Re: [Retep-PDF] newbie question.

[Peter M. <pe...@re...>]

Knight, Lloyd wrote:
> i compiled and ran the retep pdf uri example that generates a pdf
> from a gif file.  works great.
> 
> my goal is to grab a postscript  file and convert to pdf using java classes, thus my interest in reteppdf.
> (i don't really want to exec the ps2pdf perl script.)
> 
> if i change the SimpleDoc parameter from DocFlavor.URL.GIF to DocFlavor.URL.POSTSCRIPT,
> grab a .ps file in my URL method i get an "unsupported mime type: application" Print Exception.
> 
> is this do-able or am i waaaaay off base....
> be kind....

No problem ;-)

Currently PS to PDF is not supported. Infact there is no publically open 
source postscript interpretter available that is written in Java.

This in itself is a bit strange to me and I've spent a good part of 
today looking for one. So far all I've found are references to 
Toastscript (which was a level 1 interpretter, but has vanished of the 
face of the earth), references to an example on sun.com (but I can't 
find it), a dormant project on sourceforge and some postings on the 
itext lists recently asking about the same thing.

So unfortunately unless someone writes a postscript interpretter that I 
can use, it's not something that's going to be implemented soon 
(although I do want to get as many DocFlavor's supported as possible).

Peter

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