From: John Labovitz <johnl@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T02:59:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Soks - Yet Another Wiki

On Jan 12, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Thomas Counsell wrote:

>  I notice that Austin Ziegler started a pure ruby pdf writing project 
> on rubyforge http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/ but I don't know 
> if that has developed far enough to be a useful starting point.

It works okay.  I've used it for writing a chart module, and haven't 
found any major problems -- except for the documentation being out of 
sync with the code.

I haven't done too much text processing with it (more graphics), but 
ruby-pdf/pdf-writer's own documentation is a long PDF file generated 
from a markup file, which proves the point.  I suppose the biggest 
advantage over a LaTeX solution is that there's a whole lot less to 
install & maintain.

I built a simple .gemspec for pdf-writer if you or anyone else is 
interested.  Let me know.

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