Saturday, May 20, 2023

Annotated PDF, HTML, exporters

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If one were to compare PDF to HTML, one interesting thing that comes up fairly quickly is that their evolution has been the exact opposite o...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

The real reason why open source software is better

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The prevailing consensus at the current time seems to be that open source software is of higher quality than corresponding proprietary ones....
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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...