Introduction of Adam Blokus

John-Mark Bell jmb at netsurf-browser.org
Tue May 20 23:24:38 BST 2008


On Tue, 20 May 2008, Adam Blokus wrote:

>> Are we talking about implementing an entirely new self-contained PDF
>> 'printing' system here, rather than going the GhostScript route?
>

[...]

>> Or is this not related to the RISC OS version at all...?
>
> There is a gtk-only part in my project. But the pdf-plotting should be
> platform independent as I understand.

Correct. Note that the "GhostScript route" involves printing to 
PostScript, then using GS to convert to PDF. This is lossy and inflexible 
(and thus not desireable).


John.



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