From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-01-13T03:04:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Soks - Yet Another Wiki

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:59:12 +0900, John Labovitz
<johnl@johnlabovitz.com> wrote:
> 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.

Actually, there's a real gem available for it ;)

There is a problem with this that I have raised with the maintainer of
image_size.rb -- either to incorporate image_size.rb into PDF::Writer
or to have a Gem for image_size (preferable, I think).

Note that the latest release version has a problem with alternative
fonts; this has been fixed in CVS HEAD and may see a release toward
the end of the month.

-- 
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca