Re: pdf libraries

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Ethan Merritt a =E9crit :
> On Friday 26 January 2007 11:30, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
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>> Petr Mikulik a =E9crit :
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>>> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/libharu/
>>> Haru is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for gen=
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>>> PDF written in ANSI-C.
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>> Cairo can do it too, and we already have 90% of the code in gnuplot=20
>> right now thanks to the wxt terminal and gp_cairo.c.
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> What would be the state of UTF-8 support through such a path?
> That is a big lack in PDFlib Lite.
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> The other tricky bit is pattern-fill, but it's much less important.
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Well, I am not completely sure, but I would expect the text output to be=20
the same as the one from the wxt terminal. Actually, fonts are more of a=20
problem than encoding in my understanding of pdf.

As for pattern-fill, what are you afraid of ?

Timoth=E9e