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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no 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 10.68.25.168 with SMTP id d8mr277823pbg.4.1318840694227; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:38:14 -0700 (PDT) Path: d5ni20727pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!feeder.news-service.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Manuel Collado Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing PDF files Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:31:46 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lsYD5bGt0P0vQCWu0ebUbA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2011-10-17T10:31:46+02:00 List-Id: El 17/10/2011 2:04, Bill Findlay escribi�: > 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. > > Is there a (preferably, simple) Ada library for this purpose, by any chance? > > BTW I'm using MacOS X Lion. Have you considered generating SVG code? It is just text, and not as esoteric as PDF. Not as widely supported as PDF, but viewable in decent modern web browsers. -- Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado