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: border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nac.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Writing PDF files Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:59:49 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <362a0c08-07d1-4cf4-a2fe-d338c5423f48@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23dab0694e4174fdc880833ec67fa650"; logging-data="16712"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZQLax9ZEj9qJOh7rXmnKF" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <362a0c08-07d1-4cf4-a2fe-d338c5423f48@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:ADfhjrgynV/GbG8hVwn8S1VCR1Q= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-Original-Bytes: 2076 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:185653 Date: 2014-04-10T16:59:49+02:00 List-Id: Le 10/04/2014 15:46, gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com a écrit : > 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... FWIW, the simplest solution for me is to generate TeX, and the PDF from that. Maybe not what the OP wanted, but it works and requires only Text_IO, or AWS' templates parser for repetitive forms. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr