On May 3, 2013, at 12:16 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:

> On Fri May  3 13:15:41 EDT 2013, knapj...@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


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