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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:26:28 +0200
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Le Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:04:23 +0200, Bill Findlay  =

<yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> a =C3=A9crit:

> I am writing a KDF9 emulator in Ada 2005, and have reached the stage o=
f
> simulating a graph-plotter device.  I'm hoping to do this by convertin=
g
> 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 conta=
in.
> Is there a (preferably, simple) Ada library for this purpose, by any  =

> chance?
I don't what KDF9 is, nor its plotting device, but could SVG be an optio=
n  =

? There are already some XML libraries in the place, some even with Sche=
ma  =

validation.

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