[Skim-app-develop] postscript stuff

[Philippe Sismondi]

My recent interest in Skim development is connected with my posts on the user mailing list regarding postscript conversion. I got frustrated with the inability of Preview and Skim to convert ps output from emacs "properly".

I have created my own version of Skim that uses the ghostscript API for converting ps to pdf, since the Apple one does not work as I want. What I have done is not of production quality yet, and may never be. I am well aware that this is probably of limited interest to the community at large. The use of postscript these days is limited as compared with pdf.

However, I do regard Apple's implementation of postscript to pdf as broken. Whatever the postscript standard may say, whenever one finds multiple postscript viewer/converters that handle output from emacs ps-* printing well, while Apple's converter does not, well: f**k that. Apple's implementation is just b0rken.

Skim rocks, though. I love it; never use Preview if I can help it. I just had to roll-my-own to view ps files.

Love ya,

- Phil -

[Giovanni Lanzani]

Post by Philippe Sismondi
I have created my own version of Skim that uses the
ghostscript API for converting ps to pdf, since the Apple
one does not work as I want. What I have done is not of
production quality yet, and may never be. I am well aware
that this is probably of limited interest to the community
at large. The use of postscript these days is limited as
compared with pdf.

Would you mind providing us a build, or instructions, or whatever? I
also find (quite often I would say) ps which cannot be handles by Apple
way of converting ps files.

Thanks,

Giovanni

[Philippe Sismondi]

Post by Giovanni Lanzani

Post by Philippe Sismondi
I have created my own version of Skim that uses the
ghostscript API for converting ps to pdf, since the Apple
one does not work as I want. What I have done is not of
production quality yet, and may never be. I am well aware
that this is probably of limited interest to the community
at large. The use of postscript these days is limited as
compared with pdf.

Would you mind providing us a build, or instructions, or whatever? I
also find (quite often I would say) ps which cannot be handles by Apple
way of converting ps files.
Thanks,
Giovanni

Sure. I have to clean up the implementation slightly and test a bit more. Then I'll post the code. I should get it done before the end of the week.

Is this kind of thing appropriate for a svn branch?


- Phil -