Hi Sergio,
We have a similar need to create high definition images to be shared in
social media for the #CandidatosEnDatos[1] project. What we did then was
to combine Pharo with LaTex via Mustache templates. If I would redo the
project today, I would use Typst[2][2a], to decouple PDF creation from
the huge LaTeX ecosystem and a nicer syntax with better error messages.
In fact, we are using Typst now because of that (but we have not redone
the Pharo integration via Mustache templates).
[1] https://mutabit.tiddlyhost.com/#CandidatosEnDatos
[2] https://typst.app/
[2a] https://github.com/qjcg/awesome-typst
Hope this helps,
Offray
On 13/01/24 14:37, Sergio Ruiz wrote:
Hi, all.
I am looking to create a newspaper like listing of movie showtimes. Initially,
I thought of using imagemagick’s annotate command to generate the output.
Thinking further, I thought it might be worthwhile to generate a LaTeX file,
and render that to a jpg.
Then, I thought there might be a better way to do this natively in smalltalk.
Does anyone have any idea how I might generate a document that can be converted
to an image with a reasonable amount of control of the layout?
Thanks!
