[cl-typesetting-devel] Re: [cl-typesetting-announce] cl-typesetting at work!

[Marc Battyani]

"Klaus Weidner" <kw at w-m-p.com> wrote
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:50:48PM +0100, Marc Battyani wrote:
> > David J Cooper Jr used cl-typesetting and cl-pdf to typeset a nice GDL
> > pamphlet.
> >
> > Here it is:
> > http://www.genworks.com/downloads/gdl-pamphlet-portrait.pdf
>
> That is very impressive. Was this all done in hand-edited Lisp code or
> did he use a front end to do it?

No front end, pure Lisp code.

> One thing I noticed is that xpdf 2.03 has trouble with the fonts, which
> apparently have a modified width, resulting in characters being printed
> on top of one another. Since acroread 5 displays it fine, this is likely
> to be a bug in xpdf.

The condensed mode has been added by David. It uses the cl-pdf
pdf:set-text-x-scale function. Xpdf probably relies on the X font renderer
to display glyphs and may not have the possibility to change their x/y
ratio.

Marc