From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-06-16T03:28:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] PDF::Writer 1.0 (version 1.0.1)

On 6/15/05, Jason Foreman <threeve.org@gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems to be right on.  After compiling a new Ruby to /usr/local,
> everything is happy.  Now it is time to play...

Great to hear, Jason.

> Thanks for the help all, and thanks for this great library Austin!
> 
> FWIW:
> 
> legolas:~ jason$ time techbook
> Using default document
> '/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pdf-writer-1.0.1/lib/pdf/../../manual.pwd'.
> 
> real    4m27.959s
> user    3m53.151s
> sys     0m11.188s

BTW, if you do:

  % gem install progressbar

You'll get a nice progress bar from techbook output. I should document
the techbook format in the manual, too (or is that too
self-referential?) so that it is clear to others how to create their
own techbooks.

-austin
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