From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-06-14T10:30:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] PDF::Writer 1.0 (version 1.0.1)

On 6/13/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> > = PDF::Writer
> >
> > At long last, I have released PDF::Writer 1.0. The released version
> > is 1.0.1 and is available from RubyForge:
> >
> > Homepage::  http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/
> 
> There are two notes regarding this. Thanks to Bill Guindon for finding one.
> 
> 1. The 1.0.1 gem does not install on Windows. You will need to use the
> .tar.gz. I'm not
>    sure if this is a problem with RubyGems or the Windows 1.8.2-15
> installer, but there is
>    a Zlib buffer error :( If I can generate a workaround, I will.

Gem installed fine here with "gem install pdf".

C:\>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-mswin32]

> 2. There is a file that should not be included in either distribution
> that I forgot to clean up.
>    Ignore or remove the techbook.bat. I don't remember if the setup.rb
> does this properly
>    or not, but I will make sure that it does with the next release.

Only ran across that from trying to find the techbook app (which was
appropriately in ruby/bin).

... and Wow!  That's one impressive library!

The manual is well done, and it also serves as a great example of how
powerful this is.


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

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)