[Foomatic] Re: Ghostscript and PDF

Guenther Frick gfrick at chemie.fu-berlin.de
Tue Mar 2 11:04:13 PST 2004


In article <c1dpnq$7al$1 at poblano.linuxprinting.org>, richardl at pscu.org (Richard
Littell) writes:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> Help would be appreciated!
> 
> I am successful in creating a .eps file from a program called Tbarcode for
> linux.	I am creating a barcode with this software, by this command:
> 
> 
> $command1 = '/usr/local/tbarcode/tbarcodeclient -f/tmp/barcode.eps b20 w80
h50
> O d'.$buildBarcodeStr;
> 
> With the software I am using it creates a barcode.eps file.  When I run the
> following command in ghostscript it produces my pdf:
> 
> $command2 = '/usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r300x300
> -g800x600 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=/tmp/barcode.pdf /tmp/barcode.eps';
> 
> 
> All is great until I want to print the pdf.  I can print the pdf file however
> there is a bunch of form feed at the beginning of the pdf document.  Do I
have
> any control over the form feed when I create the pdf on the fly?
> 
> Thanks :-)

You better produce a PS file from the EPS file first. EPS is a picture.
PS is a page description.



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