PDF generation in D?

[Adrian Matoga via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 11:13:54 UTC, Jot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 09:39:09 UTC, Adrian Matoga 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 11 November 2016 at 09:47:21 UTC, Robert burner 
>> Schadek wrote:
>>> I used text files and LaTeX in the past, it works with 
>>> everything
>>>
>>> textfile -> process -> LaTeX -> pdf
>>
>> This.
>>
>> Another (a bit lower-level) option would be to produce a 
>> PostScript file and pass it to (e)ps2pdf.
>
>
> Then that begs the question about how to generate ps in D and 
> just kicks the can down the road.

PostScript is a programming language and PS files are plain text 
files with programs written in it, so formatted file output is 
your friend here.

"Lower-level" means that you need to take care of the layout of 
items on a page manually, using physical positions. It's quite 
straightforward for simple vector graphics, but not so much for 
multi-page text documents with figures and tables.