> Von: "Peter Schaffter" <pe...@schaffter.ca> > Attached is a proposal for a general use PDFPIC macro. It's > modelled after and takes exactly the same arguments as PSPIC. > > Since there's no groff pdf equivalent to .psbb, an external > program is used to get the image dimensions (pdfinfo(1) from the > poppler-utils package). The alternative is to require users to get > the dimensions themselves and make width/height required arguments. > I prefer not to take that approach since my idea is that PSPIC and > PDFPIC should behave identically, making everybody's life easier. > > In the case of PDFPIC not being used with gropdf(1), an external > program (pstopdf(1)) is used to convert the pdf file to eps, whence > processing is passed over to PSPIC. This seemed simpler than > re-inventing the wheel. > > Comments and suggestions, please.
That seems to be useful for `glilypond' (`lilypond' musical scores within groff), which has so far several troubles with PSPIC. I hope, PDFPIC will be accepted. Bernd Warken
