From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-08-10T22:01:20+09:00
Subject: Re: postscript generation

Hello Martin,

"Martin DeMello" <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> 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
> 2. Generate SVG/Dia
> 3. Generate postscript directly
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Take a look at Mark Slagell's Postscript generator:

http://clinic-db.vm.iastate.edu/support/postscript_module.html

I have used it in the past and it worked like a champ !

> 4. Draw on a canvas and use its ps output method
>
> Has anyone tried anything similar? If I go with option 4, which toolkit
> has the nicest canvas class?
>
> martin

HTH,
-- shanko