Paps is a UTF-8 to PostScript converter that makes use of pango.
It provides both a stand alone command line tool as well as a library.
"Pcal" is a program to print PostScript calendars for any month and
year. By default, it looks for a file in the home directory named
"calendar" for entries with leading dates matching dates on the
calendar, and prints any following text under the appropriate day.
pslib is a C-library to create PostScript files on the fly. It offers many
drawing primitives, inclusion of png and eps images and a very sophisticated
text rendering including hyphenation, kerning and ligatures. It can read
external Type1 fonts and embed them into the output file. It supports pdfmarks
which makes it in combination with ghostscript's pdfwriter an alternative for
libraries creating PDF.
PyPdf isaA Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of:
- extracting document information (title, author, ...),
- splitting documents page by page,
- merging documents page by page,
- cropping pages,
- merging multiple pages into a single page,
- encrypting and decrypting PDF files.
PyScript is a python module for producing high quality postscript
graphics. Rather than use a GUI to draw a picture, the picture is
programmed using python and the PyScript objects.
Some of the key features are:
* All scripting is done in python, which is a high level, easy
to learn, well-developed scripting language.
* All the objects can be translated, scaled, rotated, ... in fact
any affine transformation.
* Plain text is automatically kerned.
* You can place arbitrary LaTeX expressions on your figures.
* You can create your own figure objects, and develop a library
of figure primitives.
* Output is publication quality.
PyRTF is a pure python module for the efficient generation of
rich text format documents. It has good support for tables and
tries to maintain compatibility with as many RTF readers as possible.
QPDF is a program that can be used to linearize (web-optimize),
encrypt (password-protect), decrypt, and inspect PDF files from the
command-line. It does these and other structural, content-preserving
transformations on PDF files, reading a PDF file as input and
creating a new one as output. It also provides many useful
capabilities to developers of PDF-producing software or for people
who just want to look at the innards of a PDF file to learn more
about how they work.
QPDF understands PDF files that use compressed object streams
(supported by newer PDF applications) and can convert such files into
those that can be read with older viewers. It can also be used for
checking PDF files for structural errors, inspecting stream contents,
or extracting objects from PDF files. QPDF is not PDF content
creation or viewing software -- it does not have the capability to
create PDF files from scratch or to display PDF files.
Scribus is a desktop publishing program, similar to Adobe PageMaker(TM),
QuarkXPress(TM) or Adobe InDesign(TM).
Scribus offers support for professional publishing features, such
as CMYK color, easy PDF creation, Encapsulated Postscript import/export
and creation of color separations.
This is JadeTeX, a TeX backend for Jade.
JadeTeX enables you to produce formatted output of documents written
with the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). JadeTeX uses
tex to produce Device Independent (DVI) output; from there, you can
produce high quality hardcopy. JadeTeX also uses pdftex to produce
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) versions of your documents,
complete with hyperlinks, and suitable for distribution on the World
Wide Web and other media.
To use JadeTex, run your SGML document, its Document Type Definition
(DTD), and its Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
(DSSSL) specification, through jade with the "-t tex" option. Then,
to produce a DVI file, run
etex "&jadetex" <file>.tex
To produce a PDF file, run
pdftex "&pdfjadetex" <file>.tex
Xdvik is a program for displaying DVI files (generated e.g. by Troff or TeX)
on the X window system. It is based on the regular (non-k) xdvi of the same
version number.
This package includes pTeX support. A fontmap file for xdvi is installed as
TEXMFDIST/fonts/map/xdvi/xdvi-ptex.map.