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From: Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?
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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:
>=20
>> Is a PS/PDF library something that might benefit from reconstruction =
in Go?
>> Or is it just a spaghetti mess?
>=20
> 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