Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

[Bernd Warken]

> Von: "Peter Schaffter" <address@hidden>

> Attached is a proposal for a general use PDFPIC macro.  It's
> modelled after and takes exactly the same arguments as PSPIC.
> 
> Since there's no groff pdf equivalent to .psbb, an external
> program is used to get the image dimensions (pdfinfo(1) from the
> poppler-utils package).  The alternative is to require users to get
> the dimensions themselves and make width/height required arguments.
> I prefer not to take that approach since my idea is that PSPIC and
> PDFPIC should behave identically, making everybody's life easier.
> 
> In the case of PDFPIC not being used with gropdf(1), an external
> program (pstopdf(1)) is used to convert the pdf file to eps, whence
> processing is passed over to PSPIC.  This seemed simpler than
> re-inventing the wheel.
> 
> Comments and suggestions, please.

That seems to be useful for `glilypond' (`lilypond' musical scores
within groff), which has so far several troubles with PSPIC.

I hope, PDFPIC will be accepted.

Bernd Warken