Render to postscript

[muraiki]

Implement render to PS

I had been thinking about how to do this when I caught a relevant discussion on the Racket users mailing list:

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You should be able to, inside the draw library, swap out the dc that
gets drawn into, from a dc that you get from a canvas into a dc that
you get by creating a post-script-dc%.

You could even make it a recording dc and draw it in both places.

Robby

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM, David Van Horn wrote:

On 11/10/12 2:54 PM, David Van Horn wrote:

Is there an easy way to render draw.ss drawings to PDF or PS?

A) I know draw.ss is deprecated -- this is legacy code

B) It's OK if the solution involves "magic" (e.g. using some pict
library) -- this is just a one-off thing to render some drawings in a
high-quality printing format.

I just wanted to ping the list one more time before trying to dig in to
this.

Thanks,

David

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[muraiki]

We might be able to use the save-svg-image function and then use another program to convert that to PS/PDF. See http://docs.racket-lang.org/teachpack/2htdpimage.html?q=pinhole#%28def._%28%28lib._2htdp/image..rkt%29._save-svg-image%29%29

[muraiki]

Scribble, a Racket DSL for documentation, apparently has PDF rendering capability: http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/renderer.html