On Tuesday 04 August 2009 19:58:04 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > [Deri, I hope it's OK with you that I cite from your private email to > me.] >
Fine. > > Some weeks ago Deri James sent me a first implementation of a gropdf > driver; I've uploaded it temporarily to > > http://groff.ffii.org/groff/gropdf/ > > Deri writes: > > [...] Its drawback is its written in perl and has a dependancy on > perl module Compress::Zlib (to do the Flate compression). However, > despite this, you may consider it useful to have a 'native' PDF > driver for groff (rather than the PS -> ghostscript route). It is > slower than grops but faster than grops+gs. > > The archive contains bin/gropdf (which should be installed in the > same directory as 'grops'), /devpdf which should be installed in > your groff font directory, two files for the /tmac directory, and an > /examples directory. > > NOTE: Lines 13-15 of 'gropdf' must be "hand edited" to configure for > your particular 'groff' setup. Of course these paths would normally > be inserted by an install script. > > The /devpdf directory includes the .pfa fonts required to supplement > the 14 PDF type 1 base fonts up to the standard 35 fonts which > PostScript uses. > > Gropdf supports the following run switches:- > > -p <papersize> (same as grops) > -l (landscape mode - NOT WORKING yet!!) > -d (debug mode - uncompressed PDF and troff output included as comments) > -F <path to 'font' directory (same as grops > > > TO DO > > Fix landscape. A new version of just 'gropdf' (i.e. you need the .tgz from Werner's site installed first, then replace) is here:- <http://www.chuzzlewit.demon.co.uk/gropdf/> Very little difference but landscape now works. :-) (It actually contains a lot more code than the original I sent to Werner, which will hopefully allow individual PDF pages to be 'included' (in the same way grops allows an EPS to be embedded) - but not yet!!). Any feedback will be appreciated. Cheers Deri
