[cl-typesetting-devel] An interesting problem from a neophyte...

[Robert L. Read]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 23:01 +0100, Marc Battyani wrote:
> > 4)  Is there some package that supports "in-memory" files that
> corectly
> > computes file-position that I may not know about?
> >   
> Sure, just write the pdf to a string. It's what I do in my web
> applications.
> 
> Marc
> 

Do you mean generate the file, and then read it into a string?  I
understand that will work --- my goal is to avoid writing a file at all.

Does the API allow you to write directly to a string?  I don't see that
it does.