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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:50:23 -0600
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"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
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>On Jan 8, 5:00 pm, "R. Tyler Croy" <ty...@linux.com> wrote:
>> I have a project idea in my head that I'd /like/ to build with Ada rather 
>> than
>> Python but I can't seem to find a library for generating PDF files with 
>> Ada.
>>
>> Does such a beast exist?
>
>As long as we're on sort of a similar subject, I've wondered several
>times if there are Ada libraries for creating Microsoft Word
>documents.

The output module for the Ada Reference Manual formatter can create .rtf 
files (as well as .html files). It doesn't support anything not needed in 
the various Standards, but that still is quite a bit. I rather wish I had 
designed it a bit more flexibly so that the formats were not quite so firmly 
defined. Still, it would make a decent start in that direction.

The ARM Formatter is supposed to be licensed as GPL software (it will be as 
soon as I get a round tuit).

                                      Randy.