From: Stefan Schmiedl Date: 2004-08-09T18:56:22+09:00 Subject: Re: postscript generation On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 07:29:17 GMT, Martin DeMello wrote: > I'm trying to write a ruby program that will output a postscript > representation of a scrabble board. Some of the things I thought of are > > 1. Generate LaTeX easy > 2. Generate SVG/Dia never done this > 3. Generate postscript directly you'll need to work with low-level stuff like character sizes ... > 4. Draw on a canvas and use its ps output method never done this. > > Has anyone tried anything similar? If I go with option 4, which toolkit > has the nicest canvas class? > > martin FWIW, I'm writing my bills via a YAML-Ruby-Lout-combo. Lout is closer to PostScript and does not have some of TeX's more awkward parts. And it's *very* small compared to TeX. It should be very well suited to your problem. s. -- Stefan Schmiedl Approximity GmbH http://www.approximity.com Research & Development mailto:stefan@approximity.com