Re: Writing PDF files

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in message 
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> 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.

I use the ARM_Form program to generate RTF, then use a word processor to 
convert that to PDF. RTF is also a text-only format so it can be written by 
Text_IO. One might be able to automate that using LibreOffice or something 
similar.

                                      Randy.