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Crossing the bridge between Ghostscript and GDI+

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A C++ wrapper for the Ghostscript DLL that enables to render PS directly to GDI+ Bitmap
// This is the copyright notice for the methods to retreive the GS DLL address.
/* Copyright (C) 2000-2002, Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.  All rights reserved.
  
  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  a copy of this file ("Software"), to deal in the Software without 
  restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, 
  modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of 
  this Software, and to permit persons to whom this file is furnished to 
  do so, subject to the following conditions: 

  This Software is distributed with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.  No author
  or distributor accepts any responsibility for the consequences of using it,
  or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he
  or she says so in writing.  

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
  in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
*/

/* This file is part of GSview.  The above notice applies only 
 * to this file.  It does NOT apply to any other file in GSview
 * unless that file includes the above copyright notice.
 */

#include "stdafx.h"

#include "GSModule.h"
#include <atlbase.h>

#ifdef _DEBUG
#undef THIS_FILE
static char THIS_FILE[]=__FILE__;
#define new DEBUG_NEW
#endif

namespace gsdll
{

/* Ghostscript may be known in the Windows Registry by
 * the following names.
 */
#define GS_PRODUCT_AFPL "AFPL Ghostscript"
#define GS_PRODUCT_ALADDIN "Aladdin Ghostscript"
#define GS_PRODUCT_GNU "GNU Ghostscript"

/* Get Ghostscript versions for given product.
 * Store results starting at pver + 1 + offset.
 * Returns total number of versions in pver.
 */
static int get_gs_versions_product(int *pver, int offset,const char* gs_productfamily)
{
	USES_CONVERSION;

    HKEY hkey;
    DWORD cbData;
    HKEY hkeyroot;
    char key[256];
    int ver;
    char *p;
    int n = 0;

    sprintf(key, "Software\\%s", gs_productfamily);
    hkeyroot = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
    if (RegOpenKeyExA(hkeyroot, key, 0, KEY_READ, &hkey) == ERROR_SUCCESS) 
	{
		/* Now enumerate the keys */
		cbData = sizeof(key) / sizeof(char);
		while (RegEnumKeyA(hkey, n, key, cbData) == ERROR_SUCCESS) 
		{
		    n++;
		    ver = 0;
		    p = key;
		    while (*p && (*p!='.')) 
			{
				ver = (ver * 10) + (*p - '0')*100;
				p++;
		    }

		    if (*p == '.')
				p++;
		    if (*p) 
			{
				ver += (*p - '0') * 10;
				p++;
		    }

		    if (*p)
				ver += (*p - '0');

		    if (n + offset < pver[0])
				pver[n+offset] = ver;
		}
    }

    return n+offset;
}

/* Query registry to find which versions of Ghostscript are installed.
 * Return version numbers in an integer array.   
 * On entry, the first element in the array must be the array size 
 * in elements.
 * If all is well, true is returned.
 * On exit, the first element is set to the number of Ghostscript
 * versions installed, and subsequent elements to the version
 * numbers of Ghostscript.
 * e.g. on entry {5, 0, 0, 0, 0}, on exit {3, 550, 600, 596, 0}
 * Returned version numbers may not be sorted.
 *
 * If Ghostscript is not installed at all, return false
 * and set pver[0] to 0.
 * If the array is not large enough, return false 
 * and set pver[0] to the number of Ghostscript versions installed.
 */
static bool get_gs_versions(int *pver)
{
    int n;
    if (pver == (int *)NULL)
	    return false;

    n = get_gs_versions_product(pver, 0, GS_PRODUCT_AFPL);
    n = get_gs_versions_product(pver, n, GS_PRODUCT_ALADDIN);
    n = get_gs_versions_product(pver, n, GS_PRODUCT_GNU);

    if (n >= pver[0]) {
	pver[0] = n;
	return false;	/* too small */
    }

    if (n == 0) {
	pver[0] = 0;
	return false;	/* not installed */
    }
    pver[0] = n;
    return true;
}

 
/*
 * Get a named registry value.
 * Key = hkeyroot\\key, named value = name.
 * name, ptr, plen and return values are the same as in gp_getenv();
 */

static int gp_getenv_registry(HKEY hkeyroot, const char *key, const char *name, 
    char *ptr, int *plen)
{
    HKEY hkey;
    DWORD cbData, keytype;
    BYTE b;
    LONG rc;
    BYTE *bptr = (BYTE *)ptr;

    if (RegOpenKeyExA(hkeyroot, key, 0, KEY_READ, &hkey)
	== ERROR_SUCCESS) {
	keytype = REG_SZ;
	cbData = *plen;
	if (bptr == (BYTE *)NULL)
	    bptr = &b;	/* Registry API won't return ERROR_MORE_DATA */
			/* if ptr is NULL */
	rc = RegQueryValueExA(hkey, (char *)name, 0, &keytype, bptr, &cbData);
	RegCloseKey(hkey);
	if (rc == ERROR_SUCCESS) {
	    *plen = cbData;
	    return 0;	/* found environment variable and copied it */
	} else if (rc == ERROR_MORE_DATA) {
	    /* buffer wasn't large enough */
	    *plen = cbData;
	    return -1;
	}
    }
    return 1;	/* not found */
}


static bool get_gs_string_product(int gs_revision, const char *name, char *ptr, int len, const char* gs_productfamily)
{
    /* If using Win32, look in the registry for a value with
     * the given name.  The registry value will be under the key
     * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AFPL Ghostscript\N.NN
     * or if that fails under the key
     * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\AFPL Ghostscript\N.NN
     * where "AFPL Ghostscript" is actually gs_productfamily
     * and N.NN is obtained from gs_revision.
     */

    int code;
    char key[256];
    char dotversion[16];
    int length;
    DWORD version = GetVersion();

    if (((HIWORD(version) & 0x8000) != 0)
	  && ((HIWORD(version) & 0x4000) == 0)) {
	/* Win32s */
	return false;
    }


    sprintf(dotversion, "%d.%02d", 
	    (int)(gs_revision / 100), (int)(gs_revision % 100));
    sprintf(key, "Software\\%s\\%s", gs_productfamily, dotversion);

    length = len;
    code = gp_getenv_registry(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, key, name, ptr, &length);
    if ( code == 0 )
	return true;	/* found it */

    length = len;
    code = gp_getenv_registry(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, key, name, ptr, &length);

    if ( code == 0 )
	return true;	/* found it */

    return false;
}

static bool get_gs_string(int gs_revision, const char *name, char *ptr, int len)
{
    if (get_gs_string_product(gs_revision, name, ptr, len, GS_PRODUCT_AFPL))
		return true;
    if (get_gs_string_product(gs_revision, name, ptr, len, GS_PRODUCT_ALADDIN))
		return true;
    if (get_gs_string_product(gs_revision, name, ptr, len, GS_PRODUCT_GNU))
		return true;

    return false;
}



/* Set the latest Ghostscript EXE or DLL from the registry */
static bool find_gs(char *gspath, int len, int minver)
{
    int count;
    int *ver;
    int gsver;
    char buf[256];
    int i;

    DWORD version = GetVersion();
    if ( ((HIWORD(version) & 0x8000)!=0) && ((HIWORD(version) & 0x4000)==0) )
	return false;  // win32s

    count = 1;
    get_gs_versions(&count);
    if (count < 1)
		return false;

    ver = (int *)malloc((count+1)*sizeof(int));
    if (ver == (int *)NULL)
		return false;

    ver[0] = count+1;
    if (!get_gs_versions(ver)) 
	{
		free(ver);
		return false;
    }

    gsver = 0;
    for (i=1; i<=ver[0]; i++) 
	{
		if (ver[i] > gsver)
		    gsver = ver[i];
    }
    free(ver);

    if (gsver < minver)	// minimum version (e.g. for gsprint)
		return false;
    
    if (!get_gs_string(gsver, "GS_DLL", buf, sizeof(buf)))
		return false;

	strncpy(gspath, buf, len-1);

	return true;
}

CModule::CModule()
:m_module(NULL)
{
}

CModule::~CModule()
{
	if (m_module)
	{
		FreeLibrary(m_module);
		m_module=NULL;
	}

	TRACE(_T("gsdll32.dll unloaded\n"));
}

void CModule::LoadModule()
{
	USES_CONVERSION;
	
	char buf[256];

	if (m_module != NULL)
		return;

	if ( find_gs(buf, sizeof(buf), 550) )
		m_module=LoadLibrary(A2CT(buf));

	TRACE(_T("gsdll32.dll loaded\n"));
}

HMODULE CModule::GetModule()
{
	if (!m_module)
		LoadModule();

	return m_module;
};

bool CModule::IsDllLoaded() const
{
	return m_module!=NULL;
};

};

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Jonathan de Halleux is Civil Engineer in Applied Mathematics. He finished his PhD in 2004 in the rainy country of Belgium. After 2 years in the Common Language Runtime (i.e. .net), he is now working at Microsoft Research on Pex (http://research.microsoft.com/pex).

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