PDFs in Pure Ruby

Re:PDFs in Pure Ruby by plinkplonk on Friday January 22, 2010 @10:17AM (#1069784)

Ok so another question for sandal. How do you begin to work on a pdf gen library in your favorite language? read the pdf standard?

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Re:PDFs in Pure Ruby by sandal on Friday January 22, 2010 @11:26AM (#1069928)

This would be a good discussion for the Prawn mailing list. Post there and I'll reply with some details (and the other devs will likely chime in as well).

Just let us know what sort of feature set you want to implement, and we can point you to the relevant spec sections and supporting materials.

Prawn's source is pretty readable, and will be even more so as we refactor. A trip through the source might help, too:

http://github.com/sandal/prawn

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Re:PDFs in Pure Ruby by amoeba on Friday January 22, 2010 @10:55AM (#1069875)

The PDF spec is rather long but the basic format is simple enough. Check out http://yob.id.au/2009/11/12/intro-to-the-pdf-file-structure.... for a short intro.

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