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a : activetcl@listserv.ActiveState.com 1 November 2005 • 7:52AM -0500

RE: [Activetcl] Viewing PDF's?
by Jeff Hobbs

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Otmar Reisinger wrote:
> Jerry LeVan schrieb:
> > So why is the ability to use PDF's advertised in the Img doc? (Since
> > it does not appear to work...)
>
> I can't answer that question, I'm afraid, but if I understood the gs manual
> correctly, it just says that PDFs cannot be read from stdin if piped (e.g.
by
> a filter); it does not say that PDFs cannot be processed anyway.
>
> So you could try to call gs directly from your tclet (only for PDFs) and
hand
> over the name of the file (instead of piping via stdin). I'm

It may be that the Img author misread the docs and never tested
this particular case.  Perhaps it actually worked in some
previous version of gs.  In any case, if you find that you get
a working solution, do report the bug regardless to the Img SF
project.

  Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy
  http://www.ActiveState.com/, a division of Sophos


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