Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Circles do not exist

Many logos, drawings and other graphical designs have the following shape in it. What is this shape? If you thought: "Ah-ha! I'm sm...

Sunday, September 10, 2023

A logo for CapyPDF

The two most important things about any software project are its logo and mascot. Here is a proposal for both for CapyPDF. As you can probab...

Friday, September 1, 2023

CapyPDF 0.5 is out

There are no actual release notes, but a bunch of stuff got added. Code is here . Many of these were things needed by Inkscape for its new C...

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The least convenient way of defining an alpha value

PDF's drawing model inherits from PostScript, which was originally designed in the early 80s. It works and is really nice but the one gl...

Friday, July 21, 2023

Creating a PDF/X-3 document with CapyPDF

The original motivation for creating CapyPDF was understanding how fully color managed and print-ready PDF files are actually put together. ...

Sunday, July 16, 2023

PDF transparency groups and composition

The PDF specification has the following image as an example of how to do transparent graphics composition. This seems simple but actually re...

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

CapyPDF 0.4 release and presenter tool

I have just released version 0.4 of CapyPDF. You can get it either via Github or PyPI . The target of this release was to be able to create...

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