pandascript

NAME

SYNOPSIS

pandascript
  

DESCRIPTION

pandascript is an optional scriptable front end to the Panda PDF generation API.
      

COMMANDS

pandascript recognizes these commands when they appear on standard input:

output

Defines the name of the PDF document that you would like to create as the output of pandascript. There is currently no way of specifying standard output as the output location.

filename

Quoted string. The name of the PDF file to be created.

close

Close the document named in the output command. This includes writing out all of the PDF information that has been created during the session.

newpage

Create a newpage in the PDF document. Only on page may be editted at a time, and there is no way to go backwards in the pages of the PDF, so be sure that you have finished creating the current page before issuing this command.

imagebox

The equivalent of the imagebox(3) function call from the Panda API. The following arguements are required:

top

Integer. The location of the top of the image.

left

Integer. The location of the left hand side of the image.

bottom

Integer. The location of the bottom of the image.

right

Integer. The location of the right hand side of the image.

filename

Quoted string. The name of the image file that is being inserted into the PDF file.

type

The type of the image that is being inserted. One of: TIFFIMG or JPEGIMG.

imageboxrot

The equivalent of the imageboxrot">imageboxrot(3) function call from the Panda API. This is very similar to the imagebox command above, but allows for the image to be rotated on the page. The following arguements are required:

top

Integer. The location of the top of the image.

left

Integer. The location of the left hand side of the image.

bottom

Integer. The location of the bottom of the image.

right

Integer. The location of the right hand side of the image.

angle

Floating point. The angle the image should be rotated at.

filename

Quoted string. The name of the image file that is being inserted into the PDF file.

type

The type of the image that is being inserted. One of: TIFFIMG or JPEGIMG.

textbox

The equivalent of the textbox">textbox(3) function call from the Panda API. This inserts a text string onto the current page in the PDF document. The following arguements are required:

top

Integer. The location of the top of the textbox.

left

Integer. The location of the left hand side of the textbox.

bottom

Integer. The location of the bottom of the textbox.

right

Integer. The location of the right hand side of the textbox.

text

Quoted string. The text to insert.

setfontmode

Integer.

setcharspacing

Float.

setwordspacing

Float.

sethorizscaling

Float.

setleading

Float.

setfont

Quoted string.

DATA TYPES

The following data types are defined for pandascript:

Quoted string

This is any text, wrapped in quote characters. For example "frog" "the quick brown duck" and "wasabe is yummy".

Integer

A number without a decimal point. For example 1, 42, or -461.

Float

A number with a decimal point. Examples include: 1.4; 46.56; or -978.6.

EXAMPLE

There is sample code generated by demo.sh as part of the pandascript distribution.  

AUTHOR

Panda and pandascript are under development by Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com). All code is Copyright Michael Still 2000, and is released under the GPL. Code submissions are welcomed. Contact Michael at the address above if you have something you would like to contribute.  

BUGS

There are no known bugs in Panda or pandascript. If you find one, please contact mikal@stillhq.com and let me know.  

VERSION

This information was last updated for version 0.3 of pandascript.
    

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