Re: [Caml-list] Basic typesetting

[Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>]

Zitat von Matthieu Dubuget <matthieu.dubuget@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I just tried CamlPDF, which is very nice for what I want to do:
> just export one simple page of text into pdf.
[...]

Oh, I didn't heard of CamlPDF before.
If I found the correct page, then it is a pre-release.
But there is no date on the page, so I don't know if it's up to date.


>
> For this kind of simple thing, I'd really like to get rid of the big, slow,
> and difficult to install fop.

fop?


>
> But in order to put text objects on page at the right place, I would
> like to compute
> their size. Is there any standard way to compute it?

Postscript has a pathbbox-operator, which gives you back
the bounding box of the current path; PDF seems not to have
such an operator. At least I could not find an aequivalent thing
in the last minutes, where I browsed through the PDF-Reference Manual.

So, possibly one has to calculate the size by itself?!
(So, if CamlPDF does not provide it, I see no solution to that problem
right now.)

Ciao,
   Oliver