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diff --git a/demos/csharp/README.txt b/demos/csharp/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1665c7cd --- /dev/null +++ b/demos/csharp/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +The following projects show the use of the Ghostscript API +in a C# environment. A WPF C# Windows viewer application is +contained in the windows folder. A MONO C# Gtk viewer +application is contained in the Linux folder. + +The applications share the same API file to Ghostscript or GhostPDL +which is in api/ghostapi.cs. In this file, lib_dll is set to the appropriate +dll or so file that is create by the the compilation of Ghostscript. Note +that to build libgpdl.so on Linux you use "make so". On windows gpdldll64.dll +and variants are built depending upon the VS solution configurations. + +The applications each have another level of interface which is api/ghostnet.cs +for the Windows application and api/ghostmono.cs for the Linux application. +These files assemble the commands that are to be executed, creates the working +threads that GhostPDL/Ghostscript will run on as well as handling the call backs +from GhostPDL/Ghostscript. The Linux and Windows applications use different +threading methods. + +The Windows application includes the ability to print the document via +the Windows XPS print pipeline. The application will call into GhostPDL/Ghostscript +with the xpswrite device to create the XPS content. + +Both applications will offer the user the chance to distill any non-PDF files +that are opened with the application. + +Both applications should at some point be slightly reworked to provide improved +performance on rendering only the visible pages when PDF is the document source. +PCL and PS file formats are streamed and so cannot work in this manner without +a severe performance penalty. + + + |