Tag : PDF

If you want another proof that Haskell is going mainstream, here is one : a Fashion Magazine developed in Haskell. And I am happy because they are using my HPDF library to generate it. The mag is created in an automatic way from the blogs of the 360Fashion Network : a network of fashion professionals who try to give an insider view of the fashion industry. So, expect to see lots of pictures blogged from mobile phones during the fashion weeks.

I made some updates to my small Haskell PDF library.

Here it is ! I finally released a version 1.0 of my Haskell PDF library. It is a totally new implementation and a totally new version. But, it is not done yet. There are several other features I'd like to introduce in future versions and some things I'd like to improve. But, I had to release something. I could not wait forever. Here is a summary of the features with some criticisms. The package is containing a demo in the Test folder.

I have finally released HPDF 1.1 with some typesetting features. More details are in this post. It is very experimental but working. I am not happy at all with the API of HPDF but I have no choice. I need, for another project, to add features as fast as possible. I'll think about the elegance of the API later even if I need to change lots of things in HPDF (not really a good development methodology I agree). In addition to the typesetting features, I corrected lots of problems, optimized the code and changed a little bit the image API.

The text operators of the release 1.0 of my Haskell PDF library are very low level. You have access to most of the PDF text operators but it means you can just specify where to put a line of text. So, it is difficult to do more than displaying some labels on a chart. The styles are also very limited : you can use bold and italic if it is supported by the standard PDF fonts. For the 1.1 release of my library, I have decided to improve this and write something cool.

I am pleased to release a new version of my PDF library for Haskell and an example showing what's possible with the library : a magazine generated in an automatic way with Haskell. The parsing for the magazine has not yet been debugged totally and the image layout algorithm is currently very simple. The text formatting in columns is not always ok because I have not yet implemented an hyphenation algorithm. But, the result, still in beta, is good.

This blog is very quiet but there is a good reason for it : I am writing a totally new version of my Haskell PDF library. New API and new implementation with lots of new features.