Package psg

Any ideas, suggestion or criticism is always welcome!

Welcome to the Python PostScript Generator

For a general introduction please refer to the README file in the distribution root folder!

Any ideas, suggestion or criticism is always welcome!

Diedrich Vorberg <diedrich@tux4web.de>

Submodules

psg.document.document: This module defines a base class for documents and a number of utility classes.
psg.document.dsc: This module provides classes that model the PostScript Language Document Structuring Conventions as described in Adobe's Specifications Version 3.0 available at http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/index_specs.html.

psg.drawing.box: This module defines a number of very usefull classes to model a 'box' on a page: canvas, textbox, eps_image and raster_image.
psg.drawing.text:

psg.exceptions: This module defines psg speficic exceptions.
psg.fonts: The AFM module is split into two parts: The parser that reads an AFM file and creates a tree of Python objects to represent the metrics in memory and a backend that provides higher level functions to do calculations based on the matics.

psg.fonts.afm_metrics: This module defines afm_metrics.
psg.fonts.afm_parser: This module defines classes to parse and represent Adobe Font Metrics files and provides functionality to conveniently access the information contained.
psg.fonts.encoding_tables:
psg.fonts.font': Implement higher level classes to handle fonts and font families.
psg.fonts.metrics: This module defines a generic class for font metrics.
psg.fonts.type1': This module contains code to handle PostScript Type1 fonts.

psg.interpreters.gs': This module implements an psg interface for Ghostscript.
psg.interpreters.interpreter': An interpreter is a PostScript runtime environment.

psg.procsets: Procsets are predefined PostScript programs that are put into a document's header if psg needs them.
psg.util: Utility classes and functions.

psg.util.file_like_buffer': Buffers for output file generation
psg.util.measure: This module contains functions and classes for calculating length and area on paper.
psg.util.misc: Misc utility functions and classes.
psg.util.subfile': Wrapper class for file objects that will emulate a file that contains a specified subset of the 'parent' file.
psg.util.uuid': UUID objects (universally unique identifiers) according to RFC 4122.