From: Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 12:27:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AFAC2A70-84F7-4742-B17E-E2409CC6F2CA@corpus-callosum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2c695bda7be6327ae28a3f3c23ad63d@ladd.quanstro.net>
On May 3, 2013, at 12:16 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> On Fri May 3 13:15:41 EDT 2013, knapjack@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Is a PS/PDF library something that might benefit from reconstruction in Go?
>> Or is it just a spaghetti mess?
>
> go or c, a fresh implementation might be an improvement,
> and given the weight of some of the other options, might be
> more time-efficient than one would think.
There are several somewhat portable pdf rendering libraries
out there. Some with mostly C and a little sprinkling of
C++ (like mupdf.com). If we had a Javascript interpreter
and support or SVG then https://wiki.mozilla.org/PDF.js
might be an option once that group irons out the kinks.
-jas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-03 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-03 14:18 Steve Simon
2013-05-03 14:22 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-03 14:34 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-05-03 15:53 ` David du Colombier
2013-05-03 20:08 ` Steve Simon
2013-05-04 7:43 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 16:20 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 16:26 ` a
2013-05-03 16:48 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 17:14 ` Jack Johnson
2013-05-03 17:16 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-03 17:24 ` pmarin
2013-05-03 17:27 ` Jeff Sickel [this message]
2013-05-03 17:50 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 18:10 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-05-03 18:34 ` tlaronde
2013-05-03 18:38 ` erik quanstrom
2013-05-03 18:53 ` Jack Johnson
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