[cups.development] cgpdftoraster

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Tue, 25/5/10, Alexander Cohen <naftaly at me.com> wrote:

> >> If so, where can i get the source and if not, is
> there anything comparable that does not use poppler or gs?
> > 
> > I am not aware of any open source PDF RIPs other than
> Ghostscript and Xpdf/poppler.
> > 
> > If you need to render PDF to a bitmap on a Mac, the
> best/easiest path is via CoreGraphics - you can open the PDF
> file and render the pages to a bitmap context. That's
> essentially what cgpdftoraster is doing along with N-up
> support, etc.
> 
> Exactly what i'm doing, but on the iPhone.. And on the
> iPhone, a bitmap context does not seem to support CMYK so
> raster to hp won't work correctly= since it only seems to
> support CMYUK or B/W. I was hoping the source code to that
> had some hints as to how to get this done easily.

Actually mupdf is wriiten for the embedded market and would be ideal.
http://www.mupdf.com/