shawnfrostx

Ok! I will look into those libraries. Thanks a lot.

Thank you. I will look into Tikz source code.

Thank you. It was helpful!

Thank you for the books and the suggestions. I understand the warnings since I did not really provide any information on my project in the post. Essentially, I am writing a batteries included language to act as a replacement for LaTeX (or at the moment, a small subset of it). I cannot use any existing library since they do not work for my own PL and I do not want to go through PostScript -> PDF since the reason I started this project was because the time delay between saving a .tex file and seeing the output on my pdf reader was becoming very long.

Ah, sorry. That's not what I meant -- in hindsight it does feel a bit clickbaity. But it doesn't look like there's any way for me to edit the title on HN.

Hello. It will be open source once I release it -- I am hoping by August, since I have the summer off by a stroke of luck.

Thank you. I'll take a look at the older specs. I assumed that the 2.0 version would be the one with the best print quality and I should target that.

Hello. Thank you for the suggestions. I will look into ReportLab and the older versions of PDF. I am trying to avoid the whole PostScript / GhostScript route since my primary goal is to generate a PDF as fast as possible.

Hello. My project is essentially a replacement for a small subset of LaTeX. I use LaTeX for a lot of my own work but the massive amount of converters going from LaTeX to PDF is the reason I started this project in the first place.