Christian Haider has PDFtalk, originally in Visual works, but he and others have created ports to GenStone, Squeak, and Pharo. Bob Nemec created Report4PDF to make it easier to generate documents. Also, originally in VW, but also ported to GS, Squeak, and Pharo. On Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 11:37 Sergio Ruiz <sergio.rrd@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, all.

I am looking to create a newspaper like listing of movie showtimes. Initially, I thought of using imagemagick’s annotate command to generate the output.

Thinking further, I thought it might be worthwhile to generate a LaTeX file, and render that to a jpg.

Then, I thought there might be a better way to do this natively in smalltalk.

Does anyone have any idea how I might generate a document that can be converted to an image with a reasonable amount of control of the layout?

Thanks!

Hi Sergio, We have a similar need to create high definition images to be shared in social media for the #CandidatosEnDatos[1] project. What we did then was to combine Pharo with LaTex via Mustache templates. If I would redo the project today, I would use Typst[2][2a], to decouple PDF creation from the huge LaTeX ecosystem and a nicer syntax with better error messages. In fact, we are using Typst now because of that (but we have not redone the Pharo integration via Mustache templates). [1] https://mutabit.tiddlyhost.com/#CandidatosEnDatos [2] https://typst.app/ [2a] https://github.com/qjcg/awesome-typst Hope this helps, Offray On 13/01/24 14:37, Sergio Ruiz wrote:

Hi, all.

I am looking to create a newspaper like listing of movie showtimes. Initially, I thought of using imagemagick’s annotate command to generate the output.

Thinking further, I thought it might be worthwhile to generate a LaTeX file, and render that to a jpg.

Then, I thought there might be a better way to do this natively in smalltalk.

Does anyone have any idea how I might generate a document that can be converted to an image with a reasonable amount of control of the layout?

Thanks!