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Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro
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Deri James |
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Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro |
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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 23:24:07 +0100 |
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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
- [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Bernd Warken, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/17
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Peter Schaffter, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/18
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro,
Deri James <=
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/20
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/20
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Ted Harding, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2014/09/22
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Ulrich Lauther, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Deri James, 2014/09/21
- Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro, Keith Marshall, 2014/09/21