On Mar 6, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Sabine Knöfel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to use the pdf generator without Pier?
> -> creating pdfs from smalltalk?
> Could that be an alternative to Artefact?
>
For pdf it does Pier -> Latex -> PDF
But PDF generation there are options:
Artefact, for Pharo and the right thing for report generation:
http://astares.blogspot.fr/2012/04/oliver-created-pdf-framework-for-pharo.html
PDF4Smalltalk. This is for VisualWorks and a very complete PDF implementation:
https://gitorious.org/pdf4smalltalk
> Greetings
> Sabine
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> wrote:
> This sounds quite fascinating.
>
> Two questions:
> - How do I use it?
> - How are you generating the PDF?
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Stéphane and I have been working on Gutemberg, a tool that converts
> books written using the Pier syntax to PDF documents and HTML pages.
>
> http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~DamienCassou/Pier-Gutemberg
>
> This project is partially supported by ESUG http://www.esug.org/.
>
> We are proud to announce the first alpha version of Gutemberg. This
> alpha version has a nearly-complete PDF exporter and a
> basically-working HTML exporter.
>
> We use Inria infrastructure to build one example book:
> https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/.
>
> The long term goal is to facilitate collaborative book editing. We
> don't want to impose a web browser and an active Internet connection.
>
> --
> Damien Cassou
> http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
>
> "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
> losing enthusiasm."
> Winston Churchill
>
>
>
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "Every thing has its own flow"
>
