From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6071f84396b8f5aa X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.8.135 with SMTP id r7mr23468645pba.8.1318818112460; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Path: d5ni19326pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing PDF files Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:21:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8917f181-1e2a-49d1-908b-8f975dc451e9@p35g2000prp.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net aBrR4TbpP/GmQDmS+4Cx6gUGsB4n9EhE4hCtH83dm2ETKtWBrm Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wvu7lKD6JEYWDZB3KhVXMZOaoow= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.28.0.101117 Thread-Topic: Writing PDF files Thread-Index: AcyMc4eKCPcDV+k0Z0SsfifuzPjIkg== Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:13988 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2011-10-17T03:21:51+01:00 List-Id: On 17/10/2011 01:27, in article 8917f181-1e2a-49d1-908b-8f975dc451e9@p35g2000prp.googlegroups.com, "Robin Vowels" wrote: > On Oct 17, 11:04�am, Bill Findlay wrote: >> I am writing a KDF9 emulator in Ada 2005, and have reached the stage of >> simulating a graph-plotter device. �I'm hoping to do this by converting >> KDF9 plot commands into a PDF file, but am having difficulty finding a >> useful source of info on what a minimal PDF graphics file should contain. > > You are possibly better off attempting to generate a PCX file or > something similar, or even a DOC file. Why is that? -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;