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1 ;;; gs.el --- interface to Ghostscript
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
4 ;; 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Keywords: internal
9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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24 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
26 ;;; Commentary:
28 ;; This code is experimental. Don't use it.
30 ;;; Code:
32 (defvar gs-program "gs"
33 "The name of the Ghostscript interpreter.")
36 (defvar gs-device "x11"
37 "The Ghostscript device to use to produce images.")
40 (defvar gs-options
41 '("-q"
42 ;"-dNOPAUSE"
43 "-dSAFER"
44 "-dBATCH"
45 "-sDEVICE=<device>"
46 "<file>")
47 "List of command line arguments to pass to Ghostscript.
48 Arguments may contain place-holders `<file>' for the name of the
49 input file, and `<device>' for the device to use.")
50 (put 'gs-options 'risky-local-variable t)
52 (defun gs-options (device file)
53 "Return a list of command line options with place-holders replaced.
54 DEVICE is the value to substitute for the place-holder `<device>',
55 FILE is the value to substitute for the place-holder `<file>'."
56 (mapcar #'(lambda (option)
57 (setq option (replace-regexp-in-string "<device>" device option)
58 option (replace-regexp-in-string "<file>" file option)))
59 gs-options))
61 ;; The GHOSTVIEW property (taken from gv 3.5.8).
63 ;; Type:
65 ;; STRING
67 ;; Parameters:
69 ;; BPIXMAP ORIENT LLX LLY URX URY XDPI YDPI [LEFT BOTTOM TOP RIGHT]
71 ;; Scanf format: "%d %d %d %d %d %d %f %f %d %d %d %d"
73 ;; Explanation of parameters:
75 ;; BPIXMAP: pixmap id of the backing pixmap for the window. If no
76 ;; pixmap is to be used, this parameter should be zero. This
77 ;; parameter must be zero when drawing on a pixmap.
79 ;; ORIENT: orientation of the page. The number represents clockwise
80 ;; rotation of the paper in degrees. Permitted values are 0, 90, 180,
81 ;; 270.
83 ;; LLX, LLY, URX, URY: Bounding box of the drawable. The bounding box
84 ;; is specified in PostScript points in default user coordinates.
86 ;; XDPI, YDPI: Resolution of window. (This can be derived from the
87 ;; other parameters, but not without roundoff error. These values are
88 ;; included to avoid this error.)
90 ;; LEFT, BOTTOM, TOP, RIGHT: (optional) Margins around the window.
91 ;; The margins extend the imageable area beyond the boundaries of the
92 ;; window. This is primarily used for popup zoom windows. I have
93 ;; encountered several instances of PostScript programs that position
94 ;; themselves with respect to the imageable area. The margins are
95 ;; specified in PostScript points. If omitted, the margins are
96 ;; assumed to be 0.
98 (defun gs-width-in-pt (frame pixel-width)
99 "Return, on FRAME, pixel width PIXEL-WIDTH tranlated to pt."
100 (let ((mm (* (float pixel-width)
101 (/ (float (x-display-mm-width frame))
102 (float (x-display-pixel-width frame))))))
103 (/ (* 25.4 mm) 72.0)))
106 (defun gs-height-in-pt (frame pixel-height)
107 "Return, on FRAME, pixel height PIXEL-HEIGHT tranlated to pt."
108 (let ((mm (* (float pixel-height)
109 (/ (float (x-display-mm-height frame))
110 (float (x-display-pixel-height frame))))))
111 (/ (* 25.4 mm) 72.0)))
114 (defun gs-set-ghostview-window-prop (frame spec img-width img-height)
115 "Set the `GHOSTVIEW' window property of FRAME.
116 SPEC is a GS image specification. IMG-WIDTH is the width of the
117 requested image, and IMG-HEIGHT is the height of the requested
118 image in pixels."
119 (let* ((box (plist-get (cdr spec) :bounding-box))
120 (llx (elt box 0))
121 (lly (elt box 1))
122 (urx (elt box 2))
123 (ury (elt box 3))
124 (rotation (or (plist-get (cdr spec) :rotate) 0))
125 ;; The pixel width IMG-WIDTH of the pixmap gives the
126 ;; dots, URX - LLX give the inch.
127 (in-width (/ (- urx llx) 72.0))
128 (in-height (/ (- ury lly) 72.0))
129 (xdpi (/ img-width in-width))
130 (ydpi (/ img-height in-height)))
131 (x-change-window-property "GHOSTVIEW"
132 (format "0 %d %d %d %d %d %g %g"
133 rotation llx lly urx ury xdpi ydpi)
134 frame)))
137 (defun gs-set-ghostview-colors-window-prop (frame pixel-colors)
138 "Set the `GHOSTVIEW_COLORS' environment variable depending on FRAME."
139 (let ((mode (cond ((x-display-color-p frame) "Color")
140 ((x-display-grayscale-p frame) "Grayscale")
141 (t "Monochrome"))))
142 (x-change-window-property "GHOSTVIEW_COLORS"
143 (format "%s %s" mode pixel-colors)
144 frame)))
148 ;;;###autoload
149 (defun gs-load-image (frame spec img-width img-height window-and-pixmap-id
150 pixel-colors)
151 "Load a PS image for display on FRAME.
152 SPEC is an image specification, IMG-HEIGHT and IMG-WIDTH are width
153 and height of the image in pixels. WINDOW-AND-PIXMAP-ID is a string of
154 the form \"WINDOW-ID PIXMAP-ID\". Value is non-nil if successful."
155 (unwind-protect
156 (let ((file (plist-get (cdr spec) :file))
158 (timeout 40))
159 ;; Wait while property gets freed from a previous ghostscript process
160 ;; sit-for returns nil as soon as input starts being
161 ;; available, so if we want to give GhostScript a reasonable
162 ;; chance of starting up, we better use sleep-for. We let
163 ;; sleep-for wait only half the time because if input is
164 ;; available, it is more likely that we don't care that much
165 ;; about garbled redisplay and are in a hurry.
166 (while (and
167 ;; Wait while the property is not yet available
168 (not (zerop (length (x-window-property "GHOSTVIEW"
169 frame))))
170 ;; The following was an alternative condition: wait
171 ;; while there is still a process running. The idea
172 ;; was to avoid contention between processes. Turned
173 ;; out even more sluggish.
174 ;; (get-buffer-process "*GS*")
175 (not (zerop timeout)))
176 (unless (sit-for 0 100 t)
177 (sleep-for 0 50))
178 (setq timeout (1- timeout)))
180 ;; No use waiting longer. We might want to try killing off
181 ;; stuck processes, but there is no point in doing so: either
182 ;; they are stuck for good, in which case the user would
183 ;; probably be responsible for that, and killing them off will
184 ;; make debugging harder, or they are not. In that case, they
185 ;; will cause incomplete displays. But the same will happen
186 ;; if they are killed, anyway. The whole is rather
187 ;; disconcerting, and fast scrolling through a dozen images
188 ;; will make Emacs freeze for a while. The alternatives are a)
189 ;; proper implementation not waiting at all but creating
190 ;; appropriate queues, or b) permanently bad display due to
191 ;; bad cached images. So remember that this
192 ;; is just a hack and if people don't like the behaviour, they
193 ;; will most likely like the easy alternatives even less.
194 ;; And at least the image cache will make the delay apparent
195 ;; just once.
196 (gs-set-ghostview-window-prop frame spec img-width img-height)
197 (gs-set-ghostview-colors-window-prop frame pixel-colors)
198 (setenv "GHOSTVIEW" window-and-pixmap-id)
199 (setq gs (apply 'start-process "gs" "*GS*" gs-program
200 (gs-options gs-device file)))
201 (set-process-query-on-exit-flag gs nil)
203 nil))
206 ;(defun gs-put-tiger ()
207 ; (let* ((ps-file "/usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10/examples/tiger.ps")
208 ; (spec `(image :type postscript
209 ; :pt-width 200 :pt-height 200
210 ; :bounding-box (22 171 567 738)
211 ; :file ,ps-file)))
212 ; (put-text-property 1 2 'display spec)))
215 (provide 'gs)
217 ;;; arch-tag: 06ab51b8-4932-4cfe-9f60-b924a8edb3f0
218 ;;; gs.el ends here