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Ghostscript is an object oriented Ghostscript binary wrapper for PHP.

Forked from https://github.com/GravityMedia/Ghostscript

Requirements

This library has the following requirements:

• PHP 8.0+
• Ghostscript 9.00+

Installation

Install Composer in your project:

$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Require the package via Composer:

$ php composer.phar require julietgar/ghostscript:v2.0

Usage

This is a simple usage example how to convert an input PDF to an output PDF.

// Initialize autoloader
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

// Import classes
use Julietgar\Ghostscript\Ghostscript;
use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;

// Define input and output files
$inputFile = '/path/to/input/file.pdf';
$outputFile = '/path/to/output/file.pdf';

// Create Ghostscript object
$ghostscript = new Ghostscript([
    'quiet' => false
]);

// Create and configure the device
$device = $ghostscript->createPdfDevice($outputFile);
$device->setCompatibilityLevel(1.4);

// Create process
$process = $device->createProcess($inputFile);

// Print the command line
print '$ ' . $process->getCommandLine() . PHP_EOL;

// Run process
$process->run(function ($type, $buffer) {
    if ($type === Process::ERR) {
        throw new \RuntimeException($buffer);
    }

    print $buffer;
});

Testing

Clone this repository, install Composer and all dependencies:

$ php composer.phar install

Run the test suite:

$ php composer.phar test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Daniel Schröder
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.