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GSAPI version 0.3 (heavily untested)
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This module provides an interface to the gsapi
functions of GNU Gostscript.

You normally won't need this module, it's far easier
to pipe to gs under Unix.

You need libgs - which is normally available under most Linux Distributions
as ghostscript-devel or equivalent - and the ghostscript header files, see
INSTALL.

You normally want to use the tie-method, here an example:

my $output;
{ local *FH;
   tie *FH, "GSAPI", stdout => sub { $output .= $_[0]; length $_[0]};
   print FH "12345679 9 mul pstack quit\n";
}

ok($output =~ /111111111/);



INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL CCFLAGS=-I/path-to/gnu_ghostscript-8.15/src
   make
   make test
   make install

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Philip Gwyn <gwyn-at-cpan.org>
Copyright (C) 2003,2005 by Stefan Traby <[email protected]>
Copyright (C) 2003,2005 by KW-Computer Ges.m.b.H Graz, Austria.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2.0 or any later version.

the reason why this module is not available under dual license (Artistic/GPL)
is simply the fact that GNU Gostscript is only available under GPL and not
under Artistic License.