On Apr 24, 2012, at 12:01 AM, Cameron Sanders 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.
Olivier Auverlot who worked with several pdf libraries (he was working for an administration) is building a PDF generator library. He showed us some results and this is promising. Ask him. :) > 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. On which platform are you? because you should install the libraries first. Then watch the video on athens that igor sent around last week. Stef > > 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! > > Thanks in advance! > Cam
