From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Writing PDF files
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:44:32 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-10-17T01:44:32-07:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: CAC15220.FDF8%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk
On Oct 17, 4:31 am, Bill Findlay <yaldni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
Hi Bill,
I am often tempted to begin one in the same fashion as Excel Writer
( http://excel-writer.sourceforge.net/ ). But probably you'll be
faster...
The ingredients:
- a documentation, like from OpenOffice
- a small existing code in whatever language
- stick to a version of PDF where things were simple
- begin to implement only what you need (don't expect to be ever
complete anyway, and contributions will come naturally!)
With that you can get a nice PDF Writer in ~10 hours.
If you re-use the type system of Excel Writer with streams, etc. it
will be even faster.
Have fun!
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2011-10-17 0:04 Writing PDF files Bill Findlay
2011-10-17 0:27 ` Robin Vowels
2011-10-17 2:21 ` Bill Findlay
2014-04-16 7:50 ` robin.vowels
2011-10-17 2:18 ` RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2011-10-17 2:31 ` Bill Findlay
2011-10-17 8:44 ` Gautier write-only [this message]
2011-10-17 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-17 8:31 ` Manuel Collado
2011-10-17 17:26 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-17 22:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-10-17 22:23 ` Bill Findlay
2011-10-17 23:00 ` Shark8
2011-10-18 8:17 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-18 10:03 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-18 10:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-18 11:24 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-18 12:07 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-18 11:46 ` Jeffrey Creem
2011-10-18 14:03 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-20 23:22 ` Bill Findlay
2011-10-21 6:03 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-21 7:22 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-21 7:31 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-21 9:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2014-04-10 13:46 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-04-10 14:59 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-04-10 19:07 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-04-10 20:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-04-13 8:46 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-04-10 21:57 ` Bill Findlay
2014-04-10 22:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-04-11 4:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2014-04-10 17:03 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-04-10 18:59 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-04-10 21:47 ` Bill Findlay
2014-04-10 23:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-04-11 19:16 ` Bill Findlay
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