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| _abc_ | Hello. Can someone please point me right, tools to convert jpg png etc to ps, command line, linux? A package name or project name? | 13:03.50 |
| kens | You could try ImageMagick | 13:04.10 |
| _abc_ | I have that. | 13:04.23 |
| kens | Or any image application which can open the file types you want | 13:04.25 |
| | Then print to a PostScript printer. | 13:04.36 |
| _abc_ | I prefer cli | 13:04.37 |
| | psconvert perhaps? | 13:04.44 |
| kens | Then I suggest you try Google. | 13:04.52 |
| | The topic here is Ghostscript | 13:05.11 |
| _abc_ | I did. psconvert works in the opposite direction, I need ghostscript compatible output ps | 13:05.23 |
| kens | Ghostscript can already open GIF, JPEG, IFF, PBM, PCX, PWG, RAW image files | 13:06.21 |
| | See /ghostpdl/lib/view*.ps | 13:06.37 |
| | Questions regarding other tools are off topic | 13:07.02 |
| _abc_ | Thanks. convert from ImageMagick with -density option for ps output is also an option as you said | 13:07.17 |
| | /done | 13:07.30 |
| | In current ghostscript, if the input ps has a size that is very large, will gs provide a bbox that large, or constrain it to some default internal size? | 13:08.25 |
| kens | That depends on the configuration and options, it is not a question which can be answered simply. GO read the documentation | 13:09.13 |
| _abc_ | Usually I set the Paper to A4, I'm in Europe, sometimes A3, this time I'd like gs to not set anything. | 13:09.19 |
| kens | It is not possible to have no media sizwe selected. | 13:09.32 |
| _abc_ | ok | 13:09.38 |
| kens | PostScirp tinterpreters *ALWAYS* have a media size | 13:09.42 |
| deekej | Hello chrisl, I wanted to ask: what is the status of current support of CJK fonts in Ghostscript? | 15:27.29 |
| | chrisl: I'm asking, because I have found out in Fedora we have this project: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/ | 15:27.58 |
| | and that project is using some cidfmap, CIDFnmap and FAPIcidfmap files, which are located in Ghostscript's search path | 15:29.49 |
| | (you can look at those files here, if you need: https://pwu.fedorapeople.org/ghostscript-chinese/) | 15:30.01 |
| | basically, my 2 questions are: | 15:30.12 |
| kens | Ghostscript supports CJK fonts, it supports both type 0 (OCF) fonts and CIDFonts | 15:30.22 |
| deekej | 1) could it actually work to have the files mentioned above to be specified in Ghostscript's search path? (would it have any effect?) | 15:31.05 |
| kens | Yes.... | 15:31.17 |
| deekej | 2) It seems like an old project, so is it still really necessary nowadays? :) | 15:31.36 |
| kens | ut you would want to use the font(s) in place of our current DroidSansFallback font I think | 15:31.43 |
| | As to whether its necessary, well we use the Google Droid font | 15:32.39 |
| | Its useful to have a fotn with a more or less complete collection of glyphs for use as a fallback replacement. The project appears untouched since 2008, so I'd have too guess its dead. Presumably superseded by the Google initiative | 15:33.30 |
| | The website was last edited in 2013, so pretty dead I 'd say | 15:34.25 |
| chrisl | I've never seen that project before (which is slightly odd). But it doesn't look "complete", and it doesn't look active, so..... I probably wouldn't recommend using it | 15:36.24 |
| | The slight problem with the Google fonts just now is that Google have ditched truetype and are using OTF/CFF fonts - which we can't use as CIDFont substitutes | 15:37.22 |
| deekej | kens: yeah, I'm preparing the new release of Ghostscript in Fedora that will use the Google's DroidSansFallback as it does normally, so I would like to avoid using these custom fonts/mapping files | 15:39.09 |
| kens | As Chris says, they don't look useful to me | 15:39.34 |
| deekej | chrisl: hmm, could it pose a problem potentionally? | 15:39.36 |
| chrisl | Well, it depends on the glyph coverage, and the exact font contents. | 15:40.58 |
| deekej | chrisl: okay, thanks :) I will try to talk about this with the author of those files | 15:41.44 |
| kens | Good Luck :) | 15:42.23 |
| chrisl | It certainly wouldn't make sense if the glyph coverage is less, or the mapping information is less accurate than DroidSansFallback | 15:42.55 |
| deekej | chrisl: my gut feeling is that Google will have pretty good coverage of the glyphs nowadays | 15:44.17 |
| | it's just the pain of convincing people that something is no longer useful, so they should kill that package... :) | 15:44.39 |
| | kens: hehe, thanks :D I will need it :) | 15:45.41 |
| | anyway, thanks guys for the info :) | 15:45.49 |
| chrisl | NP | 15:45.58 |
| | deekej: BTW, your configure/makefile patches just landed | 15:46.25 |
| deekej | and also, I might submit some pull-request for the urw-base35-fonts repo, chrisl - but it should be just some minor changes in README, and so on :) | 15:46.42 |
| | chrisl: ah, that's good news :) thanks! ;) | 15:46.58 |
| henrys | kens:yes 9.22, on #ghostscript I don't have a proper irc client on my laptop | 16:40.29 |
| kens | Que ? | 16:40.42 |
| | Ah my q I see OK | 16:40.58 |
| henrys | the customer is reporting problems against 9.22 | 16:41.03 |
| kens | Robin had a question for you too henrys | 16:41.07 |
| henrys | looked like a statement, AIUI he is going to enable roprun and then compare that against sse Robin_Watts ? | 16:42.06 |
| kens | He did the compare, has diffs, wanted to know if you thought they were regular indeterminisms | 16:42.25 |
| | He's got a regression results and bmpcmp to look at if you want | 16:42.49 |
| henrys | oh my the log wasn't complete when I last read it | 16:43.04 |
| kens | Well, its always 5 minutes behind | 16:43.21 |
| henrys | they don't look familiar to me. I can have a look when I return | 16:45.28 |
| | I get "Request denied by WatchGuard HTTP Proxy" using the network here at the car dealership accessing any link from mupdf.com or ghostscript.com that is explicitly "http" | 16:48.24 |
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