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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: May 02, 2024, 10:41 PM »

I just tried version 0.14.0 and everything works as expected, given the warning message about deleting PostScript files.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: April 30, 2024, 04:36 PM »

We're nearly there. Changing the setting does allow the PostScript file to be kept when exporting as a PDF now.

Unfortunately, saying you don't want to keep the PostScript file will cause a previously built one to be deleted.

In other words, if it isn't set to keep PostScript files and you build a PostScript file then a PDF one (from the same man file), you lose the PostScript file.

If you build the PDF file first, you don't have this issue, of course.

Bill Gates would call this a feature, not a bug.

Warning about this in the settings would be the easiest workaround.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: April 30, 2024, 07:15 AM »

For some reason, it only builds one file each time now, no matter how I set "keep the postscript file after creating the pdf file".

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: April 30, 2024, 05:51 AM »

No problem. Having both files built could be useful.

Maybe you could add a "both" option to the output format selection.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: April 30, 2024, 05:36 AM »

Okay, I added "C:\Program Files\gs\gs10.02.1\lib" to the PATH environment variable and had no error message when starting groffstudio.

I loaded a man file, set the output format to PDF and then clicked "build".

This produced a PostScript file and a PDF file. I was able to view the .ps file in gsview and the .pdf file in Firefox without problems.

Setting the output format to PostScript also built both files.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: April 30, 2024, 05:02 AM »

I get an error at startup saying "On Windows, for creating PDF files, you need GhostScript installed. Sadly, groffstudio could not find ps2pdf.exe in your %PATH%, so writing PDF files will not be supported."

As mentioned before, I do have GhostScript (10.02.1) installed, but it does not have a ps2pdf.exe file.

There is a ps2pdf.bat file in its lib subdirectory, but only "C:\Program Files\gs\gs10.02.1\bin" is in the PATH. The bin directory contains gswin64.exe, gswin64c.exe, gsdll64.dll and gsdll64.lib only.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: April 30, 2024, 03:32 AM »

It's much easier to start gsview, load the .ps file from the menu and then export it as a PDF. 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: April 29, 2024, 11:02 PM »

It doesn't look like I have ps2pdf.exe anywhere on my hard drive. I've been using gsview with Ghostscript to convert from PostScript to PDF.

I did notice that on the groff-1.22.4-w32 section of the ezwinports page it says:-

Note: this distribution was built without Ghostscript being installed, so the HTML back-end (grohtml) and the PDF formatter (pdfroff) were not tested, and might even not work due to some missing file or font.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: March 02, 2024, 07:02 PM »

I'm having a few minor problems with using groffstudio on Windows 10.

The link to groff was greyed out, but I downloaded groff-1.22.4-w32-bin from here. I copied the files to C:\programs\groff\ and added C:\programs\groff\bin\ to my path.

I am able to load man page files in groffstudio, but it can only convert them to PostScript, not PDF format. The pdfroff file is in programs\groff\bin so it should be found by the system.

If a PDF file does get created, it is around 2Kb in size (regardless of the input file size) and appears blank in Firefox.