Hi Keith, On Thu, Aug 30 2018 at 03:06:06 PM, Keith Marshall <keith.d.marsh...@ntlworld.com> 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
