Re: PostScript wrappers

[Adam Fedor]

On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 05:16 PM, Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> Converting those to plain C files wasn't a problem for -make, however,
> compiling the library failed, since there were references to
> DPS-functions that are missing. I found those eventually referenced in
> gnustep-dgs, deep down in -dgs/DPS/include/DPS/dpsfriends.h
> Adding the headers did help compilation, but linking of course failed,
> since there were now unreferenced function calls...
>
> My question is, whether there are plans to write a wrapper for the
> current backend(s) that implements these, or whether it's even feasible
> to do so.
It's really not feasible in the general case, since a psw file can 
contain any type of PostScript - thus we'd need a full PS interpreter. 
pswrap translates the psw file to binary sequences that the PS 
interpreter can read, so we'd have to write something to decode that as 
well. Pretty hard.

The best I can think of is perhaps writing our own limited PSW->C 
translator. Most psw files are pretty simple so it would probably work 
most of the time.