From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-17T12:58:51+09:00
Subject: [ANN] PDF::Writer Technology Preview

It is with great pleasure that I am announcing the technology preview of 
PDF::Writer. This version is so alpha that you're advised to run it and 
delete it after you've proven to yourself that it works. :)

Seriously, the API for PDF::Writer will be changing drastically over the 
next few weeks, so don't base any projects on the current state of the code. 
Unless, of course, I'm hit by a bus.

Unlike ruby-clibpdf, ruby-pdflib, and ruby-panda, this library is entirely 
written in Ruby. It is not a connector to a C-based library: it is the 
library.

The library is available under an MIT-style licence; see LICENCE for more 
information.

I've been promising this for a while, and I have to thank both David Black 
and Carlos (angus_ on #ruby-lang) for helping me track down a persistent bug 
that has stumped me.

You can find it at http://www.halostatue.ca/ruby/PDF__Writer.html and on the 
RAA. I have also applied for a RubyForge project. At that point, I will be 
uploading the code to CVS there. After I have stabilised the API, if anyone 
is interested, I will happily accept assistance on the project. There's a 
lot more that I want to do, including bringing in a lot of the functionality 
that Perl's PDF::API2 provides and making the in-memory document format less 
recursive.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.16
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