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Re: [ANN] PDF Classes 2.0

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Subject: Re: [ANN] PDF Classes 2.0
From: Roph <Roph at kc dot rr dot com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:59:30 -0600
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On 11/30/05 4:17 AM, "GAmoore at aol dot com" <GAmoore at aol dot com> wrote:

>> Question: If you wanted to render to a window on the screen while drawing,
>> but save to a PDF file for printing, would you:
>> 
>> Abstract the drawing interface to render to screen or PDF based on a
>> variable?
>> 
>> Or is there a way to easily view PDF content inside a RB window on the Mac?
>> 
> 
> There is a good article about this in Real Basic Developer, but its pretty
> complicated, and I gave up on it.

You have an article or issue reference?

>In the Mac, anything thats printable is
> PDFable, and on Windows its the same if they buy the Acrobat Distiller for
> $80.

Yes, but making a bunch of 2D drawing objects and rendering them to the
screen does not make the result necessarily printable (I don't think) nor is
it likely to provide a framework for supporting multiple pages, margins, etc
that you'd like to have at hand if you have multi-page layout in mind.

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