On 24 April 2012 01:01, Cameron Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > Congrats on the release of Pharo 1.4!! Very exciting. Also, Nautilus looks > nice -- in my first few minutes of using it. > > - > One of my goals is to generate PDF reports. From Pharo, it appears that > Pango/Cairo may give me a solution. And then I saw Athens, and thought it > might be helpful. > > I used the configuration tool to load Athens, but then realized that I need > to load Cairo first -- I thought maybe it would be picked up as a > dependency... i am not very familiar with these configurations yet, and it > appears that it did not install it. > > As I look around, I am having troubles finding a description of the optimal > loading process for Pango & Cairo, for Pharo. My searches keep giving me > very old/sub-optimal references on the forums. Nothing that works when i "do > it" -- so I am obviously missing something. > > Can someone please direct me to web pages describing the optimal loading > technique for Pango & Cairo, or provide the Gofer lines here? Thanks in > advance!
Gofer it squeaksource: 'Athens'; package: 'ConfigurationOfAthens'; load. Then. (ConfigurationOfAthens project version: '1.0') load. (and of course you need to use Cog VM with NativeBoost and Cairo library installed on your OS). Now about your goals: yes, it should be fairly possible to generate PDFs using cairo. But more work is needed: this functionality are not exposed by Athens directly. The pango stuff is mostly done by Fernando, so i think he can tell you more. Anyways, if you don't fear to make your hands a bit dirty, we can make it, for sure. P.S. Now i felt for real, what is non-linear progress: this is when more than a single men contributing to project :) Together we are strong. I cannot even tell, where Athens would be, if not Fernando. > > Thanks in advance! > Cam -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
