On Thu 18 Sep 2014 19:13:44 Keith Marshall wrote: > Hmm. Perl. I've always shied away from it, particularly on MS-Windows. > I know there are implementations available, but my experience of > attempting to deploy them has always been extremely unpleasant and > discouraging. > > I'd much rather have seen an implementation of gropdf in C/C++; I'd even > be willing to attempt a translation, but I'd need guidance because my > knowledge of perl, as a language, is absolutely non-existent. > > -- > Regards, > Keith.
I think that perl projects which rely on complex module interrelationships, do struggle on windows platforms, particularly where there are underlying C libraries with perl bindings, but if you are just using perl as a scripting language with no external dependencies, I can't see a difference to other scripted languages such as the Bourne shell. Certainly I have seen gropdf being used in a windows environment and I have no reason to believe the subset of the code used to retrieve the MediaBox of a pdf document would not work equally well. I'd be very happy to give assistance in understanding the perl code, if you want to give it a go in C++. Deri
