[Lazarus] PDF generator: please test

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sat Apr 9 20:41:54 CEST 2016



On Sat, 9 Apr 2016, Ondrej Pokorny wrote:

>>> I think I'll develop a TPDFDocument->TCanvas renderer for
>>> previewing created PDF documents.
>> Great. I should then be able to plug that into fpReport too. I want to
>> implement a PDF & fpReport -> AggPas renderer too.
>
> We should then try to omit unnecessary double work. I see that AggPas should 
> be able to render TTF fonts already. Why do you need fpTTF and fpParseTTF 
> then?

Because one of the requirements is not to depend on external libraries.
AggPas uses the freetype library to render TTF.

Michael.




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