From f1f62b90f9ee003dc466fc6530f0217797924dd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Heigl Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 12:25:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Adds explanation of differences --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0f5d760..cdcc575 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ Multipaged PDF-Files will create multiple images! To not overwrite your image-fi the filename will be passed to sprintf to create a filename containing the number of the page. The one and only parameter will be the number of the page. +## Why another Ghostscript-Wrapper? + +There are currently 2 other wrappers around that both didn't meet the requirements +I had: + + * [gravitymedia/ghostscript](https://packagist.org/packages/gravitymedia/ghostscript) + * [alchemy/ghostscript](https://packagist.org/packages/alchemy/ghostscript) + +While the gravitymedia library concentrates more on creating PDFs from input-media +the alchemy library is not easily extendable and doesn't handle the parameters to +finetune Ghostscript the way I needed them. + +So this library tries to handle most of the important switches to ghostscript and +also allows you to extend the library by implementing your own driver using the +```DriverInterface```. More information on that will be shown in the +[Documentation](https://heiglandreas.github.io/Org_Heigl_Ghostscript) + ## Installation This package is best installed using [composer](https://getcomposer.org).