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

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...

Thursday, June 29, 2023

PDF and embedded videos

PDF supports playing back video content since version 1.5. I could do the whole shtick and shpiel routine of "surely this is working te...

Friday, June 23, 2023

PDF subpage navigation

A common presentation requirement is that you want to have a list of bullet points that appear one by one as you click forward. Almost all P...

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Functionality currently implemented in CapyPDF

CapyPDF has a fair bit of functionality and it might be difficult to tell from the outside what works and what does not. Here is a rough ou...

Saturday, June 10, 2023

A4PDF has been renamed to CapyPDF

As alluded to in the previous post, A4PDF has changed its name. The new project name is CapyPDF . The name refers to capybaras. Original pic...

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