Re: outputFile support in bbox device

"Igor V. Melichev" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: "Alex Cherepanov" <[email protected]>
> To: "Igor V. Melichev" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "gs-code-review" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: outputFile support in bbox device


> Igor V. Melichev wrote:
>
> > Please explain more about this patch :
> >
> > 1. Why don't use stderr redirection in command line instead implementing
the
> > new feature ?
> Microsoft command processors cannot redirect stderr to a pipe.

gs in.ps 2>stderr.txt

does redirect on Windows NT, 2000, XP.
I never tried it on Windows 95, 98.
Can you do that ?

> > 2. With the new feature, what happens if the target device of the bbox
> > device handles -dOutputFile ?
> I didn't think about it. OutputFile processing can be disabled when
> there is a target device.

I'm not sure the the desabling is a right resolution.
The target device may need an output file.

Igor.
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