On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:43:35AM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
Brent Yorgey schrieb:
I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple graphics in a compositional style. This release includes a number of significant new features, including:
* support for arbitrary straight and curved paths * more shape primitives, including polygons and rounded rectangles * support for rendering text * PNG, PDF, PS, and SVG output * built-in color support replaced with external dependence on the feature-rich colour library
and many more!
Maybe this can become an alternative to HPDF?
Well, they have very different goals, I think. Certainly there are some things you can do with HPDF that you can do with diagrams as well, but diagrams will never have all the PDF-specific features that HPDF has. If you want to make a diagram, illustration, logo, or something of that sort, and it's convenient to have it in PDF format, use diagrams. If you actually want to create a PDF document, with text layout, multiple pages, hyperlinks, annotations, etc., use HPDF; diagrams will never have those features. -Brent