Saturday, April 29, 2023

The unbearable tightness of printing

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Let's say you want to print a full colour comic book in the best possible quality. For simplicity we'll use this image as an example...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

PDF forms, the standard that seemingly isn't

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Having gotten the basic graphical output or A4PDF working I wanted to see if I could make PDF form generation work. This was of course a te...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Some details about creating print-quality PDFs

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At its core, PDF is an image file format. In theory it is not at all different from the file formats of Gimp, Krita, Photoshop and the like....
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Got the Star Trek - The Motion Picture Director's Edition box set? You might wan to check your discs

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TL/DR Star Trek The Motion Picture The Complete Adventure box set claims to contain a special, longer cut of the film. However it seems that...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

In which you find out that everything you assumed was wrong

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The previous post listed an algorithm for converting TrueType glyph advances into PDF glyph widths. It worked, but was weird, kludgy, compli...
Monday, March 20, 2023

The joy of font debugging

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Remember how in the previous blog post it was said that creating text in PDF would be "just a matter of setting some parameters"?...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

The PDF text model is quite nice, actually

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As was discussed earlier, the way PDF handles fonts and glyphs is arcane and tedious . It takes a lot of boilerplate and hitting your shins ...