Announcing:
 

               python-ghostscript 0.7

       A Python-Interface to the Ghostscript
                 C-API using ctypes

:License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)
:Author:  Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compiler.com>
:Homepage: https://gitlab.com/pdftools/python-ghostscript
:Download: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ghostscript

`Ghostscript`__, is a well known interpreter for the PostScript
language and for PDF. This package implements a interface to the
Ghostscript C-API using `ctypes`__. Both a low-level and a pythonic,
high-level interface are provided.

__ http://www.ghostscript.com/
__ http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html

This package is currently tested only under GNU/Linux. Please report
whether it works in your environment, too. Thanks.


Changes since last release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* BREAKING: ``Ghostscript()`` no longer allows passing arbitrary
  keyword arguments.

* The high-level interface now allows passing unicode strings as
  arguments. Passing bytes as arguments is still possible, but now
  deprecated.

* The high-level interface now requires ghostscript >= 9.0.8 (released
  2013-08-14).

* Allow multiple Ghostscript instances. Actually using this requires
  the library is compiled with -DGS_THREADSAFE.

* Ensure proper clean-up on error.

* High-level revision() now returns unicode strings instead of byte
  strings.

* Add low-level interface for set_arg_encoding().

* Miscellaneous small fixes.

* Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5.
  Minimum required Python version is now 3.6.


Example
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here is an example for how to use the high-level interface of `python-ghostscript`. This implements a very basic ps2pdf-tool::

  import sys
  import ghostscript

  args = [
      "ps2pdf",    # actual value doesn't matter
      "-dNOPAUSE", "-dBATCH", "-dSAFER",
      "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite",
      "-sOutputFile=" + sys.argv[1],
      "-c", ".setpdfwrite",
      "-f",  sys.argv[2]
      ]

  ghostscript.Ghostscript(*args)

--
Regards
Hartmut Goebel

| Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com |
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