On 24 April 2012 01:01, Cameron Sanders <camsanders@aol.com> wrote:
Congrats on the release of Pharo 1.4!! Very exciting. Also, Nautilus looks nice -- in my first few minutes of using it.
- One of my goals is to generate PDF reports. From Pharo, it appears that Pango/Cairo may give me a solution. And then I saw Athens, and thought it might be helpful.
I used the configuration tool to load Athens, but then realized that I need to load Cairo first -- I thought maybe it would be picked up as a dependency... i am not very familiar with these configurations yet, and it appears that it did not install it.
As I look around, I am having troubles finding a description of the optimal loading process for Pango & Cairo, for Pharo. My searches keep giving me very old/sub-optimal references on the forums. Nothing that works when i "do it" -- so I am obviously missing something.
Can someone please direct me to web pages describing the optimal loading technique for Pango & Cairo, or provide the Gofer lines here? Thanks in advance!
Gofer it squeaksource: 'Athens'; package: 'ConfigurationOfAthens'; load. Then. (ConfigurationOfAthens project version: '1.0') load. (and of course you need to use Cog VM with NativeBoost and Cairo library installed on your OS). Now about your goals: yes, it should be fairly possible to generate PDFs using cairo. But more work is needed: this functionality are not exposed by Athens directly. The pango stuff is mostly done by Fernando, so i think he can tell you more. Anyways, if you don't fear to make your hands a bit dirty, we can make it, for sure. P.S. Now i felt for real, what is non-linear progress: this is when more than a single men contributing to project :) Together we are strong. I cannot even tell, where Athens would be, if not Fernando.
Thanks in advance! Cam
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.