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Bug#700981: marked as done (ghostscript: ps2??? stdin stdout)

Your message dated Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:01:25 -0600
with message-id <2249122.irdbgypaU6@riemann>
and subject line Re: ghostscript: ps2??? stdin stdout
has caused the Debian Bug report #700981,
regarding ghostscript: ps2??? stdin stdout
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Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.05~dfsg-6.3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

It would be nice if ps2epsi accepts stdin and stdout
for input and output.  For example,

  $ ps2epsi input.ps - | furtherprocess > result.eps

and

  $ generateps | ps2epsi - result.eps

I use ps2epsi as a filter but since it doesn't follow the
traditional Unix convention (make your command a filter
if it makes sense to do so), I have to write my own wrapper
to make it a filter.

Same applies to other ps2??? commands.

Cheers,
Ryo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  debianutils            4.3.2
ii  gsfonts                1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2
ii  libc6                  2.13-38
ii  libgs9                 9.05~dfsg-6.3

ghostscript recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ghostscript suggests:
ii  ghostscript-cups  9.05~dfsg-6.3
ii  ghostscript-x     9.05~dfsg-6.3
pn  hpijs             <none>

-- no debconf information

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Thank you Alex,

On Monday, May 13, 2024 7:18:19 P.M. CST you wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:55:29 -1000 (HST) Ryo Furue <furue@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>  > It would be nice if ps2epsi accepts stdin and stdout
>  > for input and output. For example,
>  > 
>  > 
>  > $ ps2epsi input.ps - | furtherprocess > result.epsi
> 
> Ghostscript writes various messages to stdout and stderr,
> which may spoil the output file.
> 
> You will have better luck with named pipes. for instance:
> 
> cat INPUT.EPS |  (ps2epsi '%stdin' >(cat) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null)
> 
>  >OUTPUT.EPSI

That seems reasonable.

 
> Package maintainers don't know all the peculiarities of Ghostscript,
> which is evident
> from 11 years of the response time. Ghostscript has its own bug tracker,
> http:/bugs.ghostscript.com that is read daily by Ghostscript developers.

Indeed.  I'm not about to change the scripts and writing a wrapper or Alex's 
named pipes are reasonable alternatives.  Closing this bug.

-Steve

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