* Peter Bex <[email protected]> [121216 12:28]: > 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.
This is correct. It is mostly working but a few crucial postscript operations aren't translated correctly. This work in progress is available in fps's cairo-backend branch in the svn egg repository. If anyone wants to pick it up and continue hacking on it I'd be glad to help. At the moment I am a bit clueless how to continue there. (If someone finds a clever way to implement the arc command then we would be almost there). You can see the glory details and failures when running the test case from fps. I guess all it needs is a quiet moment with a whiteboard, but I don't have the former while being with the latter... Sorry for leaving it in this sorry state... HTH, Christian -- In the world, there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong, nothing can surpass it. --- Lao Tzu _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
