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