From: Gregory Brown Date: 2009-01-20T00:58:56+09:00 Subject: Re: If you use PDF::Writer, read this post! On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Jocke Selin wrote: > > On 18 Jan 2009, at 17:40, Gregory Brown wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Jocke Selin wrote: >>> >>> On 18 Jan 2009, at 01:35, Gregory Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> = Are you happy with Prawn as it is and have already migrated your new >>>> projects to it? >>> >>> I haven't even tried Prawn. Why? Because PDF::Write works and I frankly >>> don't have time to "play around" with stuff that's not a priority. I >>> suspect >>> that one day I need to try out Prawn, and I have 100% faith in that it'll >>> be >>> just fine for our needs. >> >> Do you mean it works in projects you already have built, or that you >> are using PDF::Writer for new projects? In the former case, I've got >> a lot of projects that are that way. We built them in PDF::Writer, >> they 'work', and they'll probably never get translated. But 90% of >> the time, it'd be crazy for me to use it for new projects because >> Prawn is such a time saver and will be a major benefit down the line >> since it is actively developed. There are those 10% cases from time >> to time, but those get smaller each day (For me, others might have a >> different experience) > > I read your question as "are you going to migrate existing projects to > Prawn?". And that was the question I was trying to answer. For new projects > the answer is simple; We'll definitely use the latest products available. In > PDF's case, Prawn, to be PDF::Document would be the weapon of choice. Even > if it's in late Beta. Reason for accepting late Betas is that once our > product is ready, the other product will be out of Beta too. :) Ah, that's completely understandable. Glad we cleared this up. >> Just for the record, I think this is an interesting feature. It's not >> present in PDF::Writer, so it's not at the top of the queue in terms >> of my personal goals, but I like the idea a lot and would welcome a >> prawn-paper extension, possibly even as part of the 'official' >> project. Those interested in working on such a thing should contact >> me on the Prawn mailing list[0]. > > Excellent. I will do my best to provide "specifications" if required, but > that's sadly as far as I can reasonably go with my promises. Sure, why don't you put something together and post it to the Prawn list. Who knows, someone might have a similar need and decide to implement it... -greg -- Technical Blaag at: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com Non-tech stuff at: http://metametta.blogspot.com "Ruby Best Practices" Book now in O'Reilly Roughcuts: http://rubybestpractices.com