On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 07:38:37PM -0700, Matt Gushee wrote: > Hi, Andy (and anyone interested in PDF generation)-- > > What *I* would like to see is a PDF lib that graphic designers will > like--and font embedding is a key part of that.
+1. Personally, I think the killer feature of a good PDF generating library is the ability to do text flow and page layout. I've been told that this is very hard to do right, though. The only free software PDF generating library that's capable of that which I've found is Reportlab in Python, with their "Platypus" engine. Finally, I think the fps egg is the more Schemely way to do PDF generation. The pdf egg has a heavy imperative style while fps has a functional design and has a SICP picture language flavor to it. AFAIK Christian got started on a cairo backend for fps (which would allow it to write to things other than PS like PDF, PNG, SVG etc), but this hasn't been merged into the main trunk, I think. Anyway, these are just my thoughts. Cheers, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." -- Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
