printed v0.0.3: a low-level API to generate self-contained PDF/SVG
Cristian Vasile
cristian512 at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Oct 2 18:54:38 UTC 2018
On Monday, 1 October 2018 at 09:34:34 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> printed is a low-level API to generate self-contained PDF
> 1.4/SVG 1.1 documents hopefully suitable for print.
>
> Currently it does not provide any "layout" option, you are just
> provided a sort of 2D Canvas API which can then render to
> either SVG or PDF.
>
> No line-breaking, paragraphs, ligature, vertical glyphs, or any
> type of layout are provided, they would have to be implemented
> on top of it.
>
> The most saliant feature is that you are able to embed a
> TrueType/OpenType font inside the generated PDF, instead of
> being restricted to the default fonts of PDF.
>
> It includes an OpenType parser, font matching algorithms and a
> FontRegistry which deals with "finding whatever font are
> installed".
>
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/printed
Hello,
Pdf is good however please take a look at djvu format
(http://djvu.org/) one of the authors is Yann LeCun.
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