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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing PDF files Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:47:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <362a0c08-07d1-4cf4-a2fe-d338c5423f48@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net cyMdK31Q58c01RSQBNdsagE+Us6soKJwKUfeYvkO9TMvNPFlVN Cancel-Lock: sha1:t3B42KqlFta2RPQPbbklonF0/BQ= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: Writing PDF files Thread-Index: Ac9VBmnJlZh4D6eJgkyshE3y3Mv4iA== Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:19230 Date: 2014-04-10T22:47:05+01:00 List-Id: On 10/04/2014 14:46, in article 362a0c08-07d1-4cf4-a2fe-d338c5423f48@googlegroups.com, "gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com" wrote: > Bill Findlay (Oct. 2011): > # Is there a (preferably, simple) Ada library for this purpose, by any chance? > > Later: > # I'd be happy to write my own similar package, > # if I could find PDF documentation that did not > # threaten to make my head explode. Existing Ada > # code (or even C, at a pinch) might serve that purpose. > > Did you or someone progress on this topic ? > Otherwise I'd have a beginning of package, just wanting to avoid reinventing > something more advanced... I gave up on PDF and implemented a very small subset of Encapsulated PostScript that was good enough for my very simple requirements (emulating a Calcomp plotter of the early 19060s). -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;