Welcome to PSParser homepage!

A french page will be release soon!

What is PsParser

PSParser is a java-PostScript interpreter.
It will read PostScript file and converts it in java object for displaying.
PSParser is a core program and should be associated with plugin, to render text and graphical objects.
First plugin is for JPicEdt.

It is still in devellopment and do not read all PostScript file but will do soon :)

Who does it and why

I (Mickaël Villers), do it, during me 2nd ingeneer school year, at the ENSEA, as a student project.
My teacher (Sylvain Raynal) needs a java program to read PostScript and insert object into his own project JPicEdt.

Download

This project is hosted on SourceForge servers.
The project page is here
A first public release has been done with the end of school year.
You will find it here.
You can also access source directly by CVS:

Installation and tests

From source

You should use ant builder, by running ant jar.
It will produce an psparser.jar
You should need make tool too, because of a litte bug not resolv yet, ant build.xml call the Makefile :)

Executing

You could do 3 kinds of operations at the moments:

• Use PSParser standalone:
  to do that, launch this command:
  
  java -cp pathto/psparser.jar psplugin.PSPluginDefault file.ps
  It will trace the event and the stack but not doing any rendering. Useful for debugging.
  
• Use PSParser with JPicEdt but for debbuging:
  launch this command:
  
  java -cp pathto/psparser.jar:pathtojpicedt/lib/jpicedt.jar psplugin.PSTest file.ps
  It will trace events and stacks, and shows the result drawing.
• Use PSParser in JPicEdt:
  • Copy psparser.jar into pathtojpicedt/lib
  • Copy psreader.bsh into pathtojpicedt/macros
  • Launch as usual jpicedt
  • Go into Macros menu, and launch psreader.