Re: [groff] pdfpic.tmac

[Bertrand Garrigues]

Hi Keith,

On Thu, Aug 30 2018 at 03:06:06 PM, Keith Marshall <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22/08/18 17:42, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
>> I'm using groff and -Tpdf and pictures included with .PDFPIC.
>> PDFPIC always crashes. The reason is, that pdfinfo has in its stdout
>> text not only text but also a '\0' char. The effect is, that pdfinfo
>> | grep gives an error message instead of the line containing the
>> measurements.
[...]
>
> Surely, the proper solution, as I suggested when PDFPIC was first
> mooted, is to avoid dependencies on third party tools, such as pdfinfo,
> in the first place, and to implement the necessary bounding box look-up
> directly within groff's input parser.  I even posted *working* code:
>
>   https://osdn.net/users/keith/pf/groff-psbb/wiki/FrontPage
>
> and offered that for comment, on this very list:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-10/msg00017.html
>
> The response was, to say the least, extremely disappointing ...

Sorry for answering soo late,

> only Deri deigned to reply, positively, but (alas) not always on-list.
> I'd still like to see this integrated into groff, but I'm not willing
> to devote my own energy to dealing with the abomination that is
> automake, so I will need someone else to assist with build system
> integration.

I've opened  a ticket: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?55107.
We will see after the release 1.22.4 is completed how we can integrate
your code.

Regards,

Bertrand Garrigues