Having successfully built Knuthian TeX from WEB source code (using Visual Studio), and a couple of other TeX engines, I finally feel sufficiently “brave” (or perhaps masochistic…) to attempt “the big one”: LuaTeX. You may well ask “What’s the point…
A quick example… Just a quick example of importing the Cairo graphics clock into the latest XeTeX engine (using XeLaTeX). Crop marks were added using a raw \special{pdf: bop …} command. Download PDF
Cairo graphics Cairo is an excellent graphics library, albeit a little tricky to build on Windows. After successfully compiling it as a static library (.lib) I wanted to explore using it to create PDFs containing Arabic. Cairo is a graphics…
Introduction Just a 10-minute hack to explore putting spot colours into a PDF via pdf_colorstack nodes. I don’t have access to Acrobat Professional at the moment to check the separations properly, so treat this as an “alpha” method (i.e., not…
Introduction This is a short example to introduce two very useful LuaTeX API functions which let you work with low-level PDF objects. Here we’ll use them to explore a PDF feature called pattern fills which (from the PDF specification) are…
Adobe’s PDF reader (Adobe Reader) is certainly a very nice tool for viewing PDFs but it has one annoying “feature” (certainly on Windows): it puts some form of “lock” on the PDF file you are viewing. If you have the…