World: r3wp

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

I guess compression is hard to do?

well... run-length or similar should not be a big problem (will be 
slow, but maybe the result of compress does work after removing header)

but jpg is nothing i want to write in rebol ;)

would take minutes to compress anyway...

one possibilty would be: pass jpg file name, not image!; parse jpeg 
file for jpeg data; embed jpeg data in the pdf

if compress does work, that could be applied to everything else too, 
so the resulting file would be surely smaller.

but i guess i'm not so lucky that compress is compatible...

you could use edgar's image-magic examples and use image magic if 
pro licence and image magic is found... its going to be Extremely 
fast.

max: sure but you still have to parse the resulting jpeg data

(embed jpg file saved from rebol and converted to jpeg with image-magic)

it would be nice if compress had more modes that are "strategically" 
made to be compatible with various types of binaries where such compressed 
data is embedded.

also every image to jpg is not a good idea (users may not want that, 
if the image is not a photo but a drawing for eg)

i will eventually have a look at this... for now, i'm happy with 
them being uncompressed :)