X-Ray.PS

X-Ray.PS reads PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and XPS documents and converts them to PDF or raster images (PNG, JPEG, BMP and TIFF), in pure managed C#. It contains a PostScript interpreter, an XPS reader and writer, a render model shared by both inputs, a PDF writer with font embedding, and a raster renderer with its own encoders. It needs no Ghostscript or Adobe tooling.

It is a port of an MIT-licensed open-source Python PostScript and XPS library. The port was compared with the original on 583 PostScript and EPS inputs and 62 XPS inputs: success and failure agree on every one, and the render model, PDF page count, sizes and text agree on every input that converts. See Converting documents for how the raster output compares.

curiosity-ai/x-ray-others X-Ray.PS on NuGet X-Ray.PS.Skia on NuGet

Install

dotnet add package X-Ray.PS
dotnet add package X-Ray.PS.Skia   # optional: SkiaSharp raster output

The namespaces are XRay.PS (options and shared types), XRay.PS.PostScript, XRay.PS.Xps and XRay.PS.Skia. The core package has no native dependencies; X-Ray.PS.Skia brings SkiaSharp.

Scope

It can also build and edit PostScript, EPS and XPS documents, and wrap a PNG, JPEG, BMP or TIFF in EPS.

Quick start

using XRay.PS;
using XRay.PS.PostScript;
using XRay.PS.Xps;

// PostScript or EPS to PDF and PNG
var ps = PsDocument.FromFile("drawing.ps");
File.WriteAllBytes("drawing.pdf", ps.ToPdf());
File.WriteAllBytes("drawing.png", ps.ToImage(new ImageSaveOptions(ImageFormat.Png, dpi: 150)));

// XPS to PDF, and one image per page
var xps = XpsDocument.FromFile("report.xps");
File.WriteAllBytes("report.pdf", xps.ToPdf());
List<byte[]> pages = xps.ToImages(new ImageSaveOptions(ImageFormat.Png, dpi: 96));

// Build and edit documents
var doc = PsDocument.Create(isEps: true, width: 200, height: 100);
doc.GetPage(0).Canvas.DrawText("Hello", 10, 10, "Helvetica", 12);
File.WriteAllBytes("hello.eps", doc.Save());

// Wrap a PNG, JPEG, BMP or TIFF in EPS
File.WriteAllBytes("logo.eps", ImageToEps.ConvertFile("logo.png"));

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X-Ray.PS or X-Ray.Office?

X-Ray.Office renders Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. X-Ray.PS renders PostScript, EPS and XPS. X-Ray.Content does not read these formats.

License

MIT, with the bundled Liberation Serif (OFL-1.1) and DjVu Dingbats (Bitstream Vera licence) fonts under their own terms, so the package's licence expression is MIT AND OFL-1.1. The NOTICE file in the package lists every third-party item, the ICC profile included.