On Wed, Sep 17, 2014, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > I'm not in the position to say something to PDFPIC today (direct > support would be pretty cool!), but there should be general tools > for sh(1) (perl(1)...) that can be included in a defined way and > used. I.e., roff "libraries". > > And the very same is true for generic use of external commands, as > is used by you, and what came to my mind immediately when reading: > > . sy pdfinfo @$1 | \ > grep "Page *size" | \ > sed -e 's/Page *size: *\\([[:digit:].]*\\) *x *\\([[:digit:].]*\\).*$/\ > .nr pdf-wid (p;\\1)\\n\ > .nr pdf-ht (p;\\2)/' \ > > /tmp/pdfpic\n[$$] > > For example here. There should be a way to safely generate > temporary file names in the temporary directory that is currently > used, whatever this is (most likely $TMPDIR).
Yes. The way groff stands now, I'm uneasy relying on external tools and .sy for anything but local, user-written macros. There's precedent, though, in www.tmac (PIMG), and this seems to be the best solution for PDF images. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
