I use pdfroff a lot.
I also use gpresent a lot.
I process most of my writing using a set of makefiles to automate a task.
The problem is that gpresent _needs_ PostScript input, while pdfroff
removes PostScript and leaves PDF only.
That doesn't help, because it's an exception to the rules in my
makefiles. For gpresent I would have to use regular groff and "home
cooked" PDF markup macros (which I had for quite a time, but pdfroff is
much better).
To cut a long story short, I defined PDFROFF in my makefiles as
pdfroff2. Pdfroff2 is a slightly changed pdfroff script.
I also have defined
PDFROFFOPTS ?= --no-toc-relocation --leave-postscript-only
So I always simply use
${PDFROFF} ${PDFROFFOPTS} ...
The patch against 1.19.2 that creates pdfroff2 is attached below.
Keith is this acceptable to you?
Can it become a part of a regular pdfroff?
Best regards,
Zvezdan Petkovic
--- pdfroff Sat May 27 21:52:40 2006
+++ pdfroff2 Sat May 27 21:58:18 2006
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@
help reference-dictionary no-reference-dictionary
stylesheet pdf-output no-pdf-output
version report-progress no-toc-relocation
+ leave-postscript-only
"
# Parse the command line, to identify 'pdfroff' specific options.
# Collect all other parameters into new argument and file lists,
@@ -266,6 +267,10 @@
--no-toc-relocation)
TC_DATA="" TOC_FORMAT="" BODY_FORMAT=""
;;
+
+ --leave-postscript-only)
+ LEAVE_POSTSCRIPT_ONLY="YES"
+ ;;
#
# any other non-null match must have matched more than one defined
case,
# so report the ambiguity, and bail out.
@@ -541,15 +546,22 @@
# In all cases, a final 'groff' pass is required, to format the document body.
#
$SAY >&2 $n "Formatting document ... body section ..$c"
- eval $STREAM $GROFF_STYLE $BODY_FORMAT $REFCOPY $INPUT_FILES > $BD_DATA
- $SAY >&2 ". done"
+ if test -n "$LEAVE_POSTSCRIPT_ONLY"
+ then
+ eval $STREAM $GROFF_STYLE $BODY_FORMAT $REFCOPY $INPUT_FILES
+ $SAY >&2 ". done"
+ exit 0
+ else
+ eval $STREAM $GROFF_STYLE $BODY_FORMAT $REFCOPY $INPUT_FILES > $BD_DATA
+ $SAY >&2 ". done"
+ fi
#
# Finally ...
# Invoke GhostScript as a PDF writer, to bind all of the generated
# PostScript intermediate files into a single PDF output file.
#
$SAY >&2 $n "Writing PDF output ..$c"
- PDFWRITE="$GS -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite"
+ PDFWRITE="$GS -dSAFER -dQUIET -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite"
#
# (This 'sed' script is a hack, to eliminate redundant blank pages).
#
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