The only DPS programming I have done was on AIX 3. It still required an X server with DPS extensions (imagine the simple example of rendering a string and then asking for its length - pretty much requires a full-on PostScript interpreter). The GNUStep DPS/GhostScript backend was never very functional, and AFAIK hasn't worked in about 10 years - but others can definitely provide better answers than I can here.
--Robert On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:39, Maxthon Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > An alternative idea: stick to original NeXTSTEP method? > > As what I know, NeXTSTEP use Display PostScript to manifest GUI, and is > "essentially PDF". So is it possible to use that old method to output PDF, > that is, get the portion out from the DPS frame? > > 在 2013-2-27，下午7:35，Robert Slover <[email protected]> 写道： > >> If you have Xvfb available, that can serve as a dummy X server for such >> purposes. (vfb==virtual frame buffer). Unfortunately, it still requires a >> bunch of X infrastructure such as font libraries, X shared libs, etc. >> >> On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:02, Steven LeMaire <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I tried adding the [NSApplication sharedApplication] but when I run the >>> program with that in the code, it attempts to connect to a X server (which >>> there is none in this case) and ends. >>> >>> For the NEEDS_GUI=YES, do I just plug that anywhere in the makefile ? >>> >>> thsnks ! >>> >>> >>> On 2013-02-27, at 3:10 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Am 27.02.2013 um 05:07 schrieb Germán "A. Arias" <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> El mar, 26-02-2013 a las 22:04 -0500, Steven LeMaire escribió: >>>>>> Hello Everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm looking at writing a simple program that will run scheduled on a >>>>>> server, which will query a database and using the results, generate a >>>>>> PDF report to be emailed to some users. I'm not too sure how I should go >>>>>> about doing this, my first attempt at this was to write a tool that >>>>>> creates an NSTextView, and simply inserts the text into it. It would >>>>>> then use the NSPrintOperation PDFOperationWithTextView method to create >>>>>> an NSMutableData object, which could them be written to a file. >>>>>> >>>>>> The problem I'm having now is, it requires AppKit, so I'm building with >>>>>> application.make included in my makefile, but it then is complaining >>>>>> there's no shared application object. >>>>>> Basically, I don't want a graphical interface, so I'm not sure where to >>>>>> go from here. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any guidance would be appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> Steven >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Make a tool instead an app. You only need add in GNUmakefile: >>>>> >>>>> NEEDS_GUI = YES >>>> >>>> That wont help much. What you need to do is initialize the application. >>>> Just add [NSApplication sharedApplication] somewhere in your code before >>>> you use any of the other gui classes. >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gnustep-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gnustep-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
