rebol postscript/pdf

I know there's the pdf maker script out there, I was wondering if there are any scripts/dialects out there for reading a postscript/pdf file?

Hi bryan, On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 10:03:19 AM, you wrote: b> I know there's the pdf maker script out there, I was wondering if there b> are any scripts/dialects out there for reading a postscript/pdf file? Reading a PostScript actually means executing it, and it is a FORTH-like language so you'd need to write an interpreter for it etc. (Not trivial if you want to support all the language features...) PDF does not require a full-blown PS interpreter, but it's not trivial to parse in the general case (encryption, compression...), and you'd have to support a lot of things to get to be able to read most PDFs. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

I was thinking the other day that I couldn't recall any packages that can create a desktop publication from a database eg. price lists. Some people produce price lists using Excel, but I didn't think that Excel could link cells to an ODBC source. And Publisher can't AFAIK. You can do it in Zope ( and presumably PHP4), but getting the HTML to exactly fit an A4 page is somewhat difficult. With PDF-maker, you could create the page, and bring in the data from an ODBC source ( if you have command ). Of course, creating the page in PDF-maker the very first time is a bit painful as it has to be hand coded ... but once make doc supports pdf, and tables, it could be quite a useful app. -- Graham Chiu

Graham wrote:

> Some people produce price lists using Excel, but I didn't > think that Excel could link cells to an ODBC source. And > Publisher can't AFAIK.

> Excel can quite easily link to ODBC data sources. To do > so create an ODBC > database -> then select tables/queries/views that you > want.

Hi Graham, On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 10:27:05 PM, you wrote: GC> With PDF-maker, you could create the page, and bring in the GC> data from an ODBC source ( if you have command ). Of GC> course, creating the page in PDF-maker the very first time GC> is a bit painful as it has to be hand coded ... but once BTW, I have a function that creates a table from a "data source" if anyone is interested. I'm not planning in releasing it because it has some limitations and because I think I will add some support for tables in the dialect itself someday. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

Hi Graham, On Thursday, May 30, 2002, 8:54:23 AM, you wrote: GC> Gabrielle, are there plans to make active http links in the GC> pdf document with pdf-maker? Not in the near future, since I'm out of free time currently. However I'll try to have a look to the spec to see how much work would be involved... Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r

Hi Gabriele, I just run pdf-maker-doc.r to get your documentation but I get a PDF file with just one page and 2 horizontal lines. What am I doing wrong ? Thanks --- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> escribió: > Hi Graham,

> On Thursday, May 30, 2002, 8:54:23 AM, you wrote: > GC> Gabrielle, are there plans to make active http > [rebol-request--rebol--com] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes.

------------76448E1BBED35B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Graham, you wrote: GC> I would be interested in looking at it. Would you send me a GC> copy? In attach. data-cache is an object with at least /PICK (to pick the n-th row) and /COUNT (number of rows). /PICK should return a block. columns should be like: [2 "Column 1" left 1 "Column 2" right] where the first number is the size (i.e. Column 1 will be twice as big as Column 2), the string is the column header and the word is the alignment (left, center or right). Let me know if you need any other help. 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Fixed ! It worked great via your rebsite I must have used someone else modified version Thanks --- "jose (jm)" <[jjmmes--yahoo--es]> escribió: > Hi Gabriele,

> I just run pdf-maker-doc.r to get your documentation > but I get a PDF file with just one page and 2 > > subject, without the quotes. > >

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> -----Original Message----- > From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]On Behalf Of > it has some limitations and because I think I will add some > support for tables in the dialect itself someday.

Hi jose, On Saturday, June 01, 2002, 12:06:56 AM, you wrote: jj> I just run pdf-maker-doc.r to get your documentation jj> but I get a PDF file with just one page and 2 jj> horizontal lines. Which version? It works here. I can send you the files directly if you want. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r