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About tables? TeX only handles very simple tables. Absolutely not 
enough to get QML tables there.

(you can do almost everything with TeX by using tricks, but you basically 
need to layout the table manually. it is not able to do that automatically 
- something that we need to do instead.)

That was what I figured.

update: added preliminary table support.

(the table dialect is still very basic, just for testing. table layout 
seems to work well, uses the total-fit algorithm and should create 
optimal layouts in most usual cases. there are boundary cases where 
it can fail, but i hope we won't need to worry about them. check 
test.pdf for an example of a table.)

Somehow I lost the link to the PDF-Maker test site. Would someone 
please post it.

For whatever it is worth, Gabriele, I use PDF-Maker regularly. It 
is core to some of my most important scripts. So, I very much appreciate 
your work.

Louis, what is your input lanaguge for PDFMaker?

Currently only English.  But I'm needing to print Greek, Indonesian, 
and English mixed on the same page. Also, Hebrew, Indonesian, English 
on the same page. To be more specific,  a line of Greek, then a line 
of Indonesian, then a line of English, then back to a line of Greek, 
and so on.

http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/PDFM2

update: added embedded tables (i.e. tables between paragraphs)

this also means that you can have a table inside a table cell - not 
tested yet, but maybe it works. ;)

I like the cautious optimism :)    Looking good.

LOL, I meant as in HTML, MakeDoc, etc.

reichart, i'm pretty sure he's using the pdf maker dialect directly.

Ah.  What is it?  I have not played with PDF Maker

it's much lower level than MD or QML. It's a REBOL dialect, not a 
ML.

update: text colors, fixed table parsing bug

i have tested table inside table cell, it works fine. (see test.pdf)

Cool. Getting better.

update: table options

update: graphic commands, cell decorations

(cell decorations is a superset of table borders, cell background 
etc)

see test.pdf

http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/PDFM2/test.pdf

Funny looking table borders ! :)

you can just use any graphics for cells. for example QML can produce 
boxes with rounded corners and shadows.

a quick scan here ... I do not see anything for taking a .pdf and 
converting it to something like an image or some markup.  Does anyone 
know of something that converts a .pdf to generic postscript (like 
for GSView) or to convert to native REBOL format?  Thanks.

A way to convert content, especially graphic from .pdf to something 
useful.

photoshop will strip out graphics files if thats what you need

so I can load a .pdf and make a high res bitmap?

found http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoeditwhich can do vector graphics...maybe 
this will help...and some point would be cool to do these in REBOL.

pdf2ps

Graham, thanks.

PDFCreator

 


Overview: PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into 
Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating 
system. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as 
their printer, allowing almost any application to print to PDF, PNG, 
JPEG, BMP, PCX, TIFF and EPS format.


Besides being installed as a printer driver, PDFCreator can be associated 
with .ps files to manually convert Postscript to PDF format.

Needs Ghostscript doesn't it?

Anyone know anything much about the FDF format?

Isn't that one of the formats for Acrobat Forms ? There should be 
several types, like xfdf and the like .... but I'm not 100% sure.

Yes ... it is.  But documentation seems lacking, and it appears to 
be deprecated by Adobe.

update: many bugfixes

I didn't notice much different in test.pdf. Probably small differences 
there. I keep looking at that circle and wondering if the centre 
can be positioned so that there's as much text on the first row as 
the final row.

the bugs were not visible in test.pdf, but they were in various qml 
documents. :) i will upload the new qml-ed very soon.

circle: i didn't spend much time on it. it's done by just setting 
the margins of each line so that it looks like a circle. :)

Ah :)

update: images; embedding gfx into text. (see last page of test.pdf)

You can also 
display" graphics:"

and after that, there is a box. is this correct?

very nice, by the way :-)

yes. not great gfx i know, but shows that it works ;)

i should add something instead of that box... maybe i should convert 
something from draw.

is the image of you compressed in some way?

nope. that's why it's big