Re: [Gzz] Tuukka 2002-10-13 (genimages, jython)

[Tuomas Lukka]

> To make genimages functionality smarter, we could use pdfinfo from package 
> xpdf-utils: it can tell the number of pages and resolution in a pdf file. 
> An alternative in package gs-common is pdf2dsc, but the output is not in 
> an equally nice format. 

pdfinfo sounds good.
We also need the same for .ps, naturally...

> Finding libraries to read and render pdf would be even better as we could
> get rid of some external program dependencies.

Yes, but I think for 0.8 final acceptable would be
        - lazy generation of images
        - using pdfinfo and something corresponding for .ps to
          get sizes.
        - using external programs to generate images

        Tuomas