[cl-pdf-devel] Re: [cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode support feedbackneeded

[Marc Battyani]

"Dmitriy Ivanov" <divanov at aha.ru> wrote:

> "Marc Battyani" <marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> wrote:
>
> | As for the binary mode of the pdf file, I'm starting to wonder if it's
> | a good idea after all. In any case the pdf format is a mixed char/byte
> | one and there are advantages and drawback to using each mode in Lisp.
>
> I think, the binary mode can be reasonably used when opening an external
> file to write the document. In other places, we take encoding into account
> and convert everything to strings that actually store ub8 codes. Page
stream
> content is always a string and ready for compressing.

Yes.

> That is why my latest code used your version of compress-string from
> zlib.lisp - the subtle version of string-to-octets  is unneeded.

OK.

BTW I'm sorry, but as I am really, really, busy with 4 projects to finish
before the end of the year, I have not yet looked at your encoding changes
so far. But it's still high on my todo list ;-)

Marc