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shawnfrostx
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Comment #31268046
Ok! I will look into those libraries. Thanks a lot.
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Comment #31268000
Thank you. I will look into Tikz source code.
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Comment #31267990
Thank you. It was helpful!
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Comment #31267962
Thank you for the books and the suggestions. I understand the warnings since I did not really provide any information on my project in the post. Essentially, I am writing a batteri…
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Comment #31267902
Ah, sorry. That's not what I meant -- in hindsight it does feel a bit clickbaity. But it doesn't look like there's any way for me to edit the title on HN.
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Comment #31267670
Hello. It will be open source once I release it -- I am hoping by August, since I have the summer off by a stroke of luck.
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Comment #31267500
Thank you. I'll take a look at the older specs. I assumed that the 2.0 version would be the one with the best print quality and I should target that.
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Comment #31267264
Hello. Thank you for the suggestions. I will look into ReportLab and the older versions of PDF. I am trying to avoid the whole PostScript / GhostScript route since my primary goal …
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Comment #31267070
Hello. My project is essentially a replacement for a small subset of LaTeX. I use LaTeX for a lot of my own work but the massive amount of converters going from LaTeX to PDF is the…
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Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
I am working on some typographical software that is supposed to generate PDFs at the end. It seems like there is no accessible information on how to do this. The PDF ISO specificat…