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On Oct 17, 4:31=A0am, 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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