Can't test ATM, but argument one IOBuffer(ps_string) ?
On Sunday, 13 March 2016 09:52:52 UTC+10, J Luis wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to reproduce a similar behavior of this on command line. > > cat barco.eps | gswin64c -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox - > %%BoundingBox: 0 0 71 64 > %%HiResBoundingBox: 0.000000 0.000000 70.865998 63.305998 > > What it does is to send the contents of a PostScript file (ascii file) > through ghostscript and get the result printed on stdout > > Now, instead of a file I have in Julia the contents of that file as a long > string and wanted to feed it to ghostscript, first to do the BoundingBox > query and later on to convert the ps into a raster. So I tried > > run(pipeline(P.ps, `gswin64c -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=bbox > -`)) > ERROR: open: no such file or directory (ENOENT) > in open at fs.jl:82 > > I guess the reason lies on the *pipeline *manual mention when it says > that "Strings refer to filenames". So given that P.ps above is a string > it tries to open it as a file. > So my question is, how can I put the string inpipeline's first argument > and get the output in a Julia variable? > > Thanks > > Joaquim >