pdf-maker example

Hi Rebollers, I am using Grabielle's pdf-maker with great satisfaction. However I am at a stage where I have some functions to write in order to ease the work ... unless someone has already done something ? Ciao Patrick __________________________________________________________________ Haut Débit: Modem offert soit 150,92 euros remboursés sur le Pack eXtense de Wanadoo ! Profitez du Haut Débit à partir de 30 euros/mois : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/w

Hi Patrick, On Saturday, November 2, 2002, 12:43:02 PM, you wrote: p> I am using Grabielle's pdf-maker with great satisfaction. However I am at a p> stage where I have some functions to write in order to ease the work ... p> unless someone has already done something ? I'm not sure I understand what you mean... What do you need exactly? Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

Hi Gabrielle, First, there was no criticism of pdf-maker in my mind and the existing documentation is quite good. My actual goal is pretty simple : generate two box with text inside. It is almost done with some 'reduce and '"compose/deep. What is bothering me is also the pdf coordinate. I am used to think about a page layout with the vertical axe starting at 0,0 in the upper left corner not the bottom right corner. So I had the idea of making some new functions working with "my" coordinates, avoiding the need to 'reduce or 'compose blocks. And as I am a lazy boy, I was just wondering that it was possible that somebody had already made some of these functions. Ciao Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabriele Santilli" <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> To: "pat665" <[rebol-list--rebol--com]> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: pdf-maker example

> Hi Patrick, > > On Saturday, November 2, 2002, 12:43:02 PM, you wrote: > > p> I am using Grabielle's pdf-maker with great satisfaction. However I am

> p> stage where I have some functions to write in order to ease the work

> p> unless someone has already done something ? > I'm not sure I understand what you mean... What do you need > __________________________________________________________________ > Haut Débit: Modem offert soit 150,92 euros remboursés sur le Pack eXtense

> Profitez du Haut Débit à partir de 30 euros/mois :

Hi Patrick, On Saturday, November 2, 2002, 5:01:34 PM, you wrote: p> box with text inside. It is almost done with some 'reduce and p> '"compose/deep. By the way, I hope, some day, to release a new version of the PDF Maker with a brand new dialect (probably 99% compatible with the old one, at least) that removes the need of composing. It should also add error reporting etc. p> What is bothering me is also the pdf coordinate. I am used p> to think about a page layout with the vertical axe starting at 0,0 in the p> upper left corner not the bottom right corner. You could apply a translation to get the origin on the top left corner, and a scaling of -1 on the y axis; unfortunately, this would affect text rendering... Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

Hi Gabrielle, If you are up to publish a new version, may I suggest you to implement a 'do in layout-pdf, like the do in the view layout. I have just finished a little thing with pdf-maker and a 'do would have made my code simpler. Ciao Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabriele Santilli" <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> To: "pat665" <[rebol-list--rebol--com]> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 6:26 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: pdf-maker example

> Hi Patrick, > On Saturday, November 2, 2002, 5:01:34 PM, you wrote: > p> What is bothering me is also the pdf coordinate. I am used > p> to think about a page layout with the vertical axe starting at 0,0 in

> p> upper left corner not the bottom right corner. > You could apply a translation to get the origin on the top left > __________________________________________________________________ > Haut Débit: Modem offert soit 150,92 euros remboursés sur le Pack eXtense

> Profitez du Haut Débit à partir de 30 euros/mois :

Hi Patrick, On Saturday, November 2, 2002, 9:09:57 PM, you wrote: p> If you are up to publish a new version, may I suggest you to implement a 'do p> in layout-pdf, like the do in the view layout. I have just finished a little p> thing with pdf-maker and a 'do would have made my code simpler. I think I'll add all of REBOL's iterative functions. I.e. you will be able to write: foreach [x1 y1 x2 y2] my-block [ line x1 y1 x2 y2 ] etc. I have to think more about them, to see what is useful and what is not, but I will definitely add them. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

Hi Gabriele, Have you considered combining your pdf-maker with Gavin's xml-parser/xml-object? A good idea what the two could do together can be found in the iText Java PDF library http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ One does not need to have Java installed to browse through the excellent documentation above. All one needs is the Acrobat reader. Of particular interest is chapter 7 and especially the piece about tagmaps, which allow mapping of custom business tags into document-oriented tags of the iText library. Very little effort is required to make tagmap.xml and just few lines of java driver will drive the tagmap and a business xml file to produce quite decently looking PDF books. And RTF and HTML output at the same time if one wishes to - although they will not look as good as PDF unless one would adjust the tagmap file to better match the RTF stuff. The tagmap approach is not as generic as XSLT, but consider this: you can bypass XSLT and FOP, so instead of using three different engines you can just stick with one. A rebol engine! Several years ago I wrote a package "fun-pdf" with scripts written in Ocaml, Haskell and Q to interface to C PDF library "pdflib". Among other things the scripts provided convenience functions for extracting and processing pieces of external text and image files. In hindsite, I would have done much better if I provided a support for XML instead. Just a food for thought, Jan Gabriele Santilli wrote:

Hi Jan, On Sunday, November 3, 2002, 5:28:23 PM, you wrote: JS> Have you considered combining your pdf-maker JS> with Gavin's xml-parser/xml-object? A good idea JS> what the two could do together can be found in JS> the iText Java PDF library JS> http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ I don't think I have the free time to do so, currently... I hope to have the next version of the PDF Maker much better documented so that it will be easier for other people to do things like that. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

Jan wrote: JS> Have you considered combining your pdf-maker JS> with Gavin's xml-parser/xml-object? If he went ahead and did that he might as well go ahead and turn it into a full-fledged xsl-fo processor, buy an encap license or two and sell it for the big bucks. :)

Hi Bryan, On Monday, November 4, 2002, 10:25:09 AM, you wrote: b> If he went ahead and did that he might as well go ahead and turn it into b> a full-fledged xsl-fo processor, buy an encap license or two and sell it b> for the big bucks. :) That sounds like a good idea, indeed... ;-) Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

>That sounds like a good idea, indeed... ;-)