From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T10:43:52+09:00
Subject: PDF::Writer (was Re: General observations)

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:04:27 +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
> In ruby I think of PDF::Writer and RMAgick.
> It seem that PDF::Writer has not been updated in the last months, but
> probably the author would support you if you need to fix xomething, I
> believe he's just been distracted from other projects :)

Inasmuch as I can, I will. I just wrote Greg privately because this thread 
is so old, but basically I have had real life (both a paying project and now 
a new job) and other projects (Ruwiki) intervene, and I hope to pick up 
PDF::Writer again in the summer.

The biggest problem that PDF::Writer has from reports that I have received 
to date is that the image support is, well, crap.

Part of this is because I'm not a PDF "wizard"; everything I know about PDF 
is sitting in PDF::Writer, and there are parts of that that I still don't 
know :) The other part is because I'm not really a graphics wizard. If 
someone would write an image library (preferably in pure Ruby or that 
can/will be included in the distribution) so that I can get reliable 
information from the graphics, I can use that :)

One of the overriding goals of PDF::Writer is and always will be to be pure 
Ruby. It will be slower, but it will be more portable in the long run.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2004.04.21
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